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SubjectRe: What is the best way to provide FDB related metrics to user space?
On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 04:43:51PM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> Also, some DSA switches have a VLAN-unaware FDB, and if the bridge is
> VLAN-aware, it will have one FDB entry per each VLAN, whereas the
> hardware table will have a single FDB entry.

Sorry, imprecise language. I shouldn't have expressed this in terms of
"VLAN-unaware" and "VLAN-aware", but rather, in terms of "Shared VLAN
learning" and "Independent VLAN learning". Where the software bridge
implementation uses IVL, certain switches might use SVL.

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