Bug 597598
| Summary: | RFE: add GVRP support for vlan devices | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Tomasz Kepczynski <tomek> | ||||
| Component: | initscripts | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | iarlyy, jonathan, notting, plautrba, rvokal | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Triaged | ||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | initscripts-9.26-1.fc15 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||||||
| Last Closed: | 2011-02-28 21:24:28 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||
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What are the benefits of enabling or disabling this? Does having it on by default help/hurt? GVRP is a protocol which allows switches to learn about vlan available over trunk ports. The vlans are created automatically and this allows to cut traffic on a trunk port to only that needed. "gvrp on" will allow linux kernel to announce vlan creation/removal to switch. I wouldn't put it on by default as: it requires switch with gvrp support; it requires switch to be configured properly. If it is not done then you pay for a feature which is useless for you in terms of kernel time needed to repeatedly send announcements and in traffic itself. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GARP_VLAN_Registration_Protocol#Multiple_VLAN_Registration_Protocol_.28MVRP.29 http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk389/tk689/tk301/tsd_technology_support_sub-protocol_home.html http://www.google.pl/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=6&ved=0CDYQFjAF&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hp.com%2Frnd%2Fsupport%2Fconfig_examples%2Fgvrp_use.pdf&ei=9-UFTL6RMMGMOOPDiPkK&usg=AFQjCNHCSLfsL2uJlOkAiXPI6dLImN4nlw Sorry about the delay. Added in http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=initscripts.git;a=commitdiff;h=f662d4777625cd3bedea19cccabea7741a8b45c9. Given that none of the other networking keys accept mixed case, I simplified that bit. initscripts-9.26-1.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/initscripts-9.26-1.fc15 initscripts-9.26-1.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |
Created attachment 417903 [details] proposed patch for GVRP support Description of problem: As in title really. Please see the attached patch. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): initscripts-9.14-1.fc14