From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 6 9:28:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freesbee.wheel.dk (freesbee.wheel.dk [193.162.159.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2647037BBFA; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 09:28:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jesper@skriver.dk) Received: by freesbee.wheel.dk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id DC40A3E4A; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 18:28:20 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 18:28:20 +0200 From: Jesper Skriver To: Nick Evans Cc: "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" , "'freebsd-net@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: bridging Message-ID: <20000706182820.B54678@skriver.dk> References: <712384017032D411AD7B0001023D799B07C96A@SN1EXCHMBX> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <712384017032D411AD7B0001023D799B07C96A@SN1EXCHMBX>; from nevans@nextvenue.com on Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 12:13:07PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 12:13:07PM -0400, Nick Evans wrote: > Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't bridging of two interfaces supposed to > make a duplicate of the traffic from one onto another? Why is it then that > on the second interface I bridge to I only see broadcast and multicast > packets? I have fxp0 and fxp1 acting as a bridge, fxp0 sees all kinds of > http traffic, napster, IM, etc. but fxp1 sees only multi/broadcast packets. Bridging will only bridge unicast packet's who's destination MAC adress is on the other side of the bridge. /Jesper -- Jesper Skriver, jesper(at)skriver(dot)dk - CCIE #5456 Work: Network manager @ AS3292 (Tele Danmark DataNetworks) Private: Geek @ AS2109 (A much smaller network ;-) One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message