From owner-freebsd-net Fri Jul 7 13:31:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from rapidnet.com (rapidnet.com [205.164.216.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3522137C558; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 13:29:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick@rapidnet.com) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by rapidnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA12959; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 14:29:00 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 14:28:59 -0600 (MDT) From: Nick Rogness To: Narvi Cc: Sean Lutner , Nick Evans , "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" , "'freebsd-net@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: bridging In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Narvi wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Sean Lutner wrote: > > > > > > > > Bridges create a broadcast zone. broadcast packets will cross the bridge > > > unobstructed. > > > > OK. So do bridged interfaces fall within the same collision > > domain?... or are they just members of the same broadcast domain? > > > > They can't be in the same collison domain - you'll realise it if you > think about it for a second. It is possible to span 2 collison domains across 1 VLAN...so yes they could be, if it were possible with FreeBSD (?IS it?) to put two ethernet cards in this setup: FreeBSD int1 int2 / \ / \ / \ switch1 switch2 If int1 and int2 were part of the same collision domain, then switch1 and switch2 would also be part of the same collosion domain and visa versa. This would be pretty cool to see happen, essentially making a VLAN switch (with Layer 3 capabilities). Nick Rogness - Speak softly and carry a Gigabit switch. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message