No, not really. Because a bridge interface is internally handeled the same as the vlan interface. The differents is, that a vlan interface can applied to multiple multiple ports. Could be a advantage and an disadvantage. :-)
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Manuel
H3CSE, MASE Network Infrastructure [2011], Switzerland
The advantage of a routed port is that it is not considered a switch port, so e.g. stp will automatically not run on the port (no L2 broadcasts are passing the interface).
The other advantage is that in case you want to pass multiple IP interfaces over 1 physical interface, vlan tags are required on the interface (in case you would be using VRFs for instance). In that case, the vlan interface would work, but the vlan id is allocated at the switch global level, so cannot be used on other interfaces anymore (that vlan would be L2 switched inside the switch). In the case of a routed port, a subinterface with a vlan tag can be created, and this vlan tag is interface local, so has nothing to do with the global vlans. So you could have 2 routed ports,each with mutiple IP interfaces on them via the subinterfaces, and the subinterface of interface1 could use vlan tag 10, while at the same moment a subinterface of interface 2 could also be using vlan tag 10. And these 2 subinterfaces would not be interconnected at layer2 (since there is no global vlan 10 required for the subinterface to work).
That is the theory, however on most HP L3 switches, these subinterfaces are not (yet ?) supported, the routers have full support for it.
