Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 13:31:38 +0200 From: Silver Salonen <silver.salonen@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr> Subject: Re: enabling if_bridge STP Message-ID: <200712061331.39016.silver.salonen@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200712061321.48728.nvass@teledomenet.gr> References: <14188023.post@talk.nabble.com> <14189511.post@talk.nabble.com> <200712061321.48728.nvass@teledomenet.gr>
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On Thursday 06 December 2007 13:21, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > On Thursday 06 December 2007 12:20:18 Atrox wrote: > > Well, as I understand, in my case, STP should be enabled mainly on > > TAP-interfaces as it would eliminate the scenario where, for an example, > > ARP-requests from 192.168.1.1 for 192.168.3.1 reach 192.168.2.1. Have I > > understood it correctly? > > It sounds like you want to isolate the ethernets, not bridge them. > Bridging is not what you need, if I have understood correctly. > > You want to keep ARP and broadcasts to the relevant boxes, right? > You have to use VLANs on your switch to achieve this, not bridging. Actually the final target is to connect all the 3 LANs over VPN, so that they can browse eachother networks etc. When I did it, I could see duplicate packets looping through all bridges, so I thought I'd bring in STP. That's what it's for, right? -- Silver
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