Re: [Bridge] Trouble with bridged interfaces

[Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:28:07 -0700
"Roman Lisagor" <RLisagor@wurldtech.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We need to bridge several interfaces together, but still retain the
> ability to communicate through the individual interfaces. So for
> example, we have eth0 and eth1 bridged and we bind IP addresses to both
> of them, in order to inject packets into communication between two
> devices connected to our interfaces.
> 


Addresses in Linux aren't assigned to interfaces.
Look up the regular questions that come up about Linux responding
to ARP on the wrong interface.

> It seems that several problems arise intermittently:
> 
> 1. When sending ping requests, replies sometimes come in on eth0/1, but
> sometimes on br0. We can work around this, but it would be great to get
> some idea of why and when this happens (and possibly whether we can
> prevent it from occurring);
> 
> 2. Occasionally, ARP requests sent by external devices for the IPs of
> eth0/1 are ignored.
> 
> We are running Fedora Core 6 (2.6.13-15-smp).
> Any ideas?
>  
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> Roman

Go up your requirements, why do you need to do things this way?
There may be better alternatives