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From: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: network-bridge script reworked
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:10:42 -0700
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Ted Kaczmarek wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 22:44 +0100, Ian Pratt wrote:
> 
>> > I hacked on the network-bridge script.
>>
>>>It now works much better for me:
>>>* we got rid of ifconfig
>>>* it works for netdev != eth0
>>>* arp on and off are symmetric as are ifdown and ifup
>>
>>Didn't we decide we needed to also set 'arp off' on the bridge to avoid
>>the 'seen packet with own mac address' complaints?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Ian
> 
> 
> I was hoping one of those guys working for one of those big shops would
> have put a tap on this by now. Would be nice to know what this ethernet
> frame before disabling the arp.

Retrying stuff this afternoon with new patch (the merge done by Ewan)
and possibly patch for new patch. Stay tuned...

thanks,
Nivedita