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Subject: Re: ARP behavior in FreeBSD vs Linux
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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