Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 13:37:59 +0700 (ICT) From: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> To: peter@dataloss.nl Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ARP behavior in FreeBSD vs Linux Message-ID: <200509190637.j8J6bxu6095963@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <20050919063322.GA17888@dataloss.nl> (message from Peter van Dijk on Mon, 19 Sep 2005 08:33:22 %2B0200) References: <20050919.004531.92589257.mshindo@mshindo.net> <432D9249.9090202@mac.com> <432DA0AC.8010802@thedarkside.nl> <432DA922.5030303@errno.com> <200509190606.j8J66JbO095192@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <20050919063322.GA17888@dataloss.nl>
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> 'Enabling' bridging is a no-op.. However, when you -configure- a > couple of interfaces together in a bridge, they share this behaviour; > but this is correct as bridging is supposed to effectively merge the > chosen interfaces into one. This does not affect any other interfaces, > which makes it substantially different from the Linux behaviour. OK, enabling bridge is useless unless you bridge a pair of interfaces :) But that ARP thing happens also with interfaces that are not part of the bridge! Even if the interfaces are ifconfiged NOARP. Olivier
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