[Bridge] Possibility of copying over fdb entries.
munro
munro.biswal at smartbridges.com
Wed Jun 29 19:11:12 PDT 2005
Hi,
How would it cause a loop. what i am trying is to possibly prevent a
loop without using stp.
And Please let me know how bonding will help. I am a newbie in this arena.
regards
Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:41:59 +0800
>munro <munro.biswal at smartbridges.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>What is wish to do is
>>There are four interfaces here
>>
>> PC1---------------------| br0
>>|if0-------------------if2| br1 | ----------------------PC2
>> |
>>|if1------------------- if3| |
>>
>>
>>br0 and br1- are two transperent bridges on separate devices.
>>if0 and if1 are two physical interfaces(ports) attached to each of the
>>bridges on either side.
>>
>>What i intend to do is to redirect all traffic coming towards br0
>>from PC1 through interface/port if1, even if the source mac is learnt
>>through if0 and the same on the other bridge br1 on the other device.
>>Similarly, any traffic coming from PC2 has to go through if2 instead
>>of if3 before it enters br0. So in all, what i want to do is make the
>>link from br0 to br1 full duplex if the physical links are half-duplex.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Munro.
>>
>>
>
>That would create a possible loop if the links are full duplex, and that
>would be a disaster! Maybe you could do what you want with the bonding
>interface?
>
>
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