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moby--moby/libnetwork/drivers/bridge/setup_device.go
Jana Radhakrishnan 885056b243 Use ioctls to create bridge
The netlink way of creating bridge has problems in older
kernels like the one used on RHEL 6 (which is a supported
one). So trying to use ioctl method to create bridge
so that it works on any version.

Signed-off-by: Jana Radhakrishnan <mrjana@docker.com>
2015-07-02 09:27:53 -07:00

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package bridge
import (
"github.com/docker/docker/pkg/parsers/kernel"
bri "github.com/docker/libcontainer/netlink"
"github.com/vishvananda/netlink"
)
// SetupDevice create a new bridge interface/
func setupDevice(config *networkConfiguration, i *bridgeInterface) error {
var setMac bool
// We only attempt to create the bridge when the requested device name is
// the default one.
if config.BridgeName != DefaultBridgeName && !config.AllowNonDefaultBridge {
return NonDefaultBridgeExistError(config.BridgeName)
}
// Set the bridgeInterface netlink.Bridge.
i.Link = &netlink.Bridge{
LinkAttrs: netlink.LinkAttrs{
Name: config.BridgeName,
},
}
// Only set the bridge's MAC address if the kernel version is > 3.3, as it
// was not supported before that.
kv, err := kernel.GetKernelVersion()
if err == nil && (kv.Kernel >= 3 && kv.Major >= 3) {
setMac = true
}
return bri.CreateBridge(config.BridgeName, setMac)
}
// SetupDeviceUp ups the given bridge interface.
func setupDeviceUp(config *networkConfiguration, i *bridgeInterface) error {
err := netlink.LinkSetUp(i.Link)
if err != nil {
return err
}
// Attempt to update the bridge interface to refresh the flags status,
// ignoring any failure to do so.
if lnk, err := netlink.LinkByName(config.BridgeName); err == nil {
i.Link = lnk
}
return nil
}