Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 18:29:39 +0200 (CEST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it> To: Nick Evans <nevans@nextvenue.com> Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bridging Message-ID: <200007061629.SAA85744@info.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <712384017032D411AD7B0001023D799B07C96A@SN1EXCHMBX> from Nick Evans at "Jul 6, 2000 12:13:07 pm"
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[Cc list trimmed to -net only!] > 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. because for unicast traffic, the bridge only forwards those packets for which there are receivers on that interface. Ideally it should do the same for multicast but that is a bit trickier to implement so i decided to leave this out. cheers luigi -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- Luigi RIZZO, luigi@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . Universita` di Pisa TEL/FAX: +39-050-568.533/522 . via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) Mobile +39-347-0373137 -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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