Re: [gentoo-user] Use brctl from bridge-utils or bridge from iproute2?

[Alon Bar-Lev]

On 16 October 2016 at 08:10, Miroslav Rovis
<miro.rovis@××××××××××××××.hr> wrote:
> On 161016-03:05+0000, Erik Mackdanz wrote:
>> Miroslav Rovis <miro.rovis@××××××××××××××.hr> writes:
> ...
>> > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Iproute2#iproute2_for_net-tools_swappers
>> >
>> > -- also notice that bridge in not in the swappers there --
>> I just added 'ip link set master'
>
> But that's not entirely correct, although only because the:
>
> brctl addbr
> brctl addif
>
> do not belong under "net-tools".
>
> You, or someone else, should make a separate table with the comparison
> of the bridge-utils (containing brctl) and iproute2's utilitiy bridge.
>
> And then probably also the usermode-utilities (containing tunctl) and
> whatever the iproute2's utilitiy is that replaces those.

Hi,

The non stable netirfc supports bridge via iproute2, please see [1]

Regards,
Alon

[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Netifrc/Brctl_Migration