Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 05:36:10 +1300 From: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org> To: Jon Otterholm <jon.otterholm@ide.resurscentrum.se> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: If_bridge behaving as HUB Message-ID: <20061016163610.GA93501@heff.fud.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <45335BB1.6050809@ide.resurscentrum.se>
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On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 12:15:13PM +0200, Jon Otterholm wrote: > Hi. > > I have a bridge setup with a number of vlan IF's as members. After a > while traffic destined for one member IF are sent to all member IF's. > > From man if_bridge: > > A bridge works like a hub, forwarding traffic from one interface to > another. Multicast and broadcast packets are always forwarded to all > interfaces that are part of the bridge. For unicast traffic, the > bridge > learns which MAC addresses are associated with which interfaces and > will > forward the traffic selectively. > > Has anyone else got this problem? How do I debug this? > You should run 'ifconfig bridge0 addr' to print out the forwarding table, check if the mac address is listed on the correct port. cheers, Andrewhome | help
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