[PATCH mlxsw.wiki] Bridge: Update VLAN-aware bridge section

Nir Dotan nird at mellanox.com
Wed Jul 25 20:38:50 AEST 2018


Update text as port netdevs can be enslaved to
a non VLAN-aware bridge.

Signed-off-by: Nir Dotan <nird at mellanox.com>
---
 Bridge.md | 12 ++----------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Bridge.md b/Bridge.md
index 21779dd..f931a75 100644
--- a/Bridge.md
+++ b/Bridge.md
@@ -123,15 +123,7 @@ $ ip link set dev BRDEV up
 
 ##### VLAN-aware Bridge
 
-Port netdevs can only be enslaved to a VLAN-aware bridge. Trying to enslave
-`sw1p5` to `br0` while `vlan_filtering` is set to `0` results in an error.
-
-```
-$ ip link set dev sw1p5 master br0
-RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
-```
-
-To enslave `sw1p5` and `sw1p6` to `br0`, run:
+To enslave `sw1p5` and `sw1p6` to a VLAN-aware `br0`, run:
 
 ```
 $ ip link set dev br0 type bridge vlan_filtering 1
@@ -139,7 +131,7 @@ $ ip link set dev sw1p5 master br0
 $ ip link set dev sw1p6 master br0
 ```
 
-Accordingly, trying to set `vlan_filtering` to `0` while port netdevs are
+Trying to set `vlan_filtering` to `0` while port netdevs are
 enslaved to it generates an error:
 
 ```
-- 
2.8.4



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