Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 10:17:20 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: Juan Rodriguez Hervella <jrh@it.uc3m.es> Subject: Re: Small question about bridging and arp Message-ID: <20040319081720.GE18091@ip.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <4059E686.6050207@mac.com> References: <200403181750.35948.jrh@it.uc3m.es> <4059E686.6050207@mac.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 01:12:22PM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Juan Rodriguez Hervella wrote: > >If I do a bridge between xl0 and xl1, can the IP address > >configured on xl1 answer ARP-requests that come from the > >LAN the xl0 is connected ? Does this make sense ? > > Yes, it should. Bridging basicly treats xl0 and xl1 as being on the same > physical network and an ARP request for an IP used by one of the two > interfaces should be answered regardless of where it came from. > One typically also sets net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_wrong_iface=0, to avoid annoying kernel messages in such a setup. (See the arp(4) manpage for details.) Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov FreeBSD committer ru@FreeBSD.org [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAWqyQUkv4P6juNwoRAoKwAJ9ZJ6gtTGCvI0y1glKiWeaad5F8sQCfV8qL AYbSkC3k6XksblR91VdGqCA= =KaEy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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