Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 22:57:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Andriy Gapon <agapon@excite.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> Cc: freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ip broadcast bridging Message-ID: <20021013225420.Y15000-100000@edge.foundation.invalid> In-Reply-To: <20021013180425.C3866@carp.icir.org>
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On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > What you see is perfectly normal. > > Bridged interfaces in a cluster are considered as a single "interface", > so irrespective from where you get the traffic, it will be passed > up the stack if it has proper addresses, which is what normally happens for > multicast and broadcast IP packets. > The fact that the interface has no IP associated does not matter, it > is up and running for all practical purposes, and it will recognise > the same traffic as the one on the other interface(s) in the cluster > which have an IP address assigned. > > This is true both for ipfw1 and ipfw2 Luigi, thank you, I think I'm starting to understand how the bridging works. -- Andriy Gapon * "I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ipfw" in the body of the message
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