From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 6 9:44: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5149237C483; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 09:43:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Received: from dbsys (dbsys.etinc.com [207.252.1.18]) by etinc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA16116; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 12:44:54 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200007061644.MAA16116@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 12:53:56 -0400 To: Nick Evans , "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" , "'freebsd-net@freebsd.org'" From: Dennis Subject: Re: bridging In-Reply-To: <712384017032D411AD7B0001023D799B07C96A@SN1EXCHMBX> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:13 PM 7/6/00 -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. Bridges only forward traffic that it thinks it need to...broadcasts, TO known devices and TO unknown devices.It doesnt forward traffic that it knows is destined for the local network. dennis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message