[Bridge] bridge physical to several dummy interface

[Abel Martín]

On 11/18/06, d tbsky <tbskyd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi:
>     thanks for your reply. you say the bridge interface should take the ip
> address,
> not the nic. that's important. i think i go to the wrong direction. i want
> nic
> (eth0,dummy0) to have ip address, not br0. it seems not what linux bridge
> designed to do...
The problem is that a bridge device works at the link layer. A bridge
device doesn't know nothing about what is above link layer.
> by the way, i found if i set mac address manually :(eg: arp -s
> 192.168.10.254 x:x:x:x:x:x),
> then i can ping 192.168.10.254 via eth0. but i can never make dummy0 work in
> any way.
>
> Regards,
> tbsky
Could you explain what your actual purpose is? I might be misunderstanding you.