Re: [Bridge] Possibility of copying over fdb entries.

[munro <munro.biswal@smartbridges.com>]

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@smartbridges.com> wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>What is wish to do is
>>There are four interfaces here
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>>              PC1---------------------| br0 
>>|if0-------------------if2|   br1 | ----------------------PC2
>>                                         |        
>>|if1------------------- if3|         |
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>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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