Bug 1296997

Summary:	allow for 'ip link show type bridge'
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Phil Sutter <psutter>
Component:	iproute	Assignee:	Phil Sutter <psutter>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Priority:	low
Version:	7.3
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2016-01-25 21:42:13 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Phil Sutter 2016-01-08 16:36:54 UTC

Listing interfaces by type (or other selectors maybe?) is a nice to have feature. Sadly, RHEL7 seems not to support it yet:

# ip link show type bridge
Error: either "dev" is duplicate, or "bridge" is a garbage.

Comment 1 Phil Sutter 2016-01-12 17:40:03 UTC

To enable this feature, the following upstream commit should be backported:

commit 712249d8fac88bcf3a9fd0b1de2263074075873b
Author: Vadim Kochan <vadim4j>
Date:   Wed Dec 10 10:11:29 2014 +0200

    ip link: Show devices by type
    
    Added new option 'type' to 'ip link show'
    command which allows to filter devices by type:
    
        ip link show type bridge
        ip link show type vlan
    
    Signed-off-by: Vadim Kochan <vadim4j>

Maybe a good opportunity to check if there are other simple enhancements missing which make life easier.

Comment 3 Phil Sutter 2016-01-25 21:42:13 UTC

This is a duplicate of bug 1297000, just specific to link type bridge, which it should not be as upstream did not fix the issue for that type separately.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1297000 ***