Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 17:00:22 +0200 From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr> To: Silver Salonen <silver.salonen@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: enabling if_bridge STP Message-ID: <200712061700.23471.nvass@teledomenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <200712061537.22617.silver.salonen@gmail.com> References: <14188023.post@talk.nabble.com> <200712061501.35633.nvass@teledomenet.gr> <200712061537.22617.silver.salonen@gmail.com>
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On Thursday 06 December 2007 15:37:21 Silver Salonen wrote: > Is all the traffic pass through the root-bridge in this case, so that if > bridge1 wants to talk to bridge2, it has to go through root-bridge and > not straight? Yes, they'll have to go through the root-bridge. STP will create a tree by shutting down ports causing loops. That's how STP works. It's all about avoiding loops... Not following the shortest path is not very important for a layer two device. Creating a loop in the topology and bringing the network down because of it, is. > In my case there's a straight connection between bridge1 > and bridge2 too, so that they don't have to communicate through > root-bridge. Yes, but that also can create a loop and according to STP must be eliminated. Perhaps you can use some inventive IP addressing scheme, to force direct communication... some ifconfig option(the edge option?) to force forwarding... a tunnel... or some other weirdness(TM) ;) Nikos
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