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Date:      Thu, 6 Jul 2000 23:01:58 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Sean Lutner <sean@rentul.net>
To:        Nick Evans <nevans@nextvenue.com>
Cc:        "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, "'freebsd-net@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: bridging
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007062300510.27356-100000@lowrider.lewman.org>
In-Reply-To: <712384017032D411AD7B0001023D799B07C96A@SN1EXCHMBX>

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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
> 
> 



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