Re: bridge gone wrong?

On Mon, 28 Jul 2025, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:

Hi,

> I wished we would have added vlan filtering/handling generically to
> interfaces as a "sub-layer" stacking things properly but that's a
> discussion for another decade I fear; but that's where I tink
> "bridge went wrong" now.

I am sorry for chosing the Subject and words here.

I am also sorry for convoluting at least three things into one email,
which certainly didn't help but put all under one topic, which wasn't my
intention:
(a) the sysctl change which triggered me noticing this work,
(b) not fully understanding the current implementation and critizing
   rather than trying to get it clarified,
(c) and acient memories from the past to improve and solve the network
   stack beyond the underlying problem here.

As I said originally, I had missed (a) and I've even since found that it is
perfectly documented beyond what I had already seen last night. My fault.

For (b) thank you for the patient reply and the further work pointed out.
I do not claim I fully understand all the bits yet but I know some
pending change greatly clarified some of my misunderstandings and I hope
you'll have the patience with me to explain the other bits (I'll start a
separate conversation for that).

When it comes to (c) that is a separate discussion to have.  But it was
a rude chosing of words of me in the subject and the text related to
this.

I did not mean to criticize all the hard work that went and goes into
bridge at the moment.  It is solving a real world problem that has
been around for way too long.  Thank you for doing it!

/bz

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     r15:7