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From: Pascal Hambourg <pascal.mail@plouf.fr.eu.org>
Subject: Re: Bridges
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:26:09 +0200
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Jonathan Tripathy a =E9crit :
>> Disable global IP forwarding.=20
> I just ran "cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward" and it returned 0. Doe=
s=20
> this mean that I have "global IP forwarding" off?

Yes. So unless you enable /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/<interface>/forwardin=
g
for a bridge, packets won't jump from that bridge to another interface.