From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 6 20: 1: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.lewman.org (lowrider.lewman.org [209.67.240.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F55937B612; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 20:00:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sean@rentul.net) Received: by mail.lewman.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 82A0B3D32; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 23:01:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.lewman.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DB9F5BC4; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 23:01:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 23:01:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Sean Lutner X-Sender: sean@lowrider.lewman.org To: Nick Evans Cc: "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" , "'freebsd-net@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: bridging In-Reply-To: <712384017032D411AD7B0001023D799B07C96A@SN1EXCHMBX> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bridges create a broadcast zone. broadcast packets will cross the bridge unobstructed. On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, 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. > > any ideas? > > > ------------------------------------------ > nick.evans > network.engineering > NextVenue, Inc. > phone: (212) 909.2988 > pager: (888) 642.5541 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message