From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:17:31 -0800 From: Stephen Hemminger Message-ID: <20081129211731.29c4b62d@extreme> In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Bridge] brctl mac List-Id: Linux Ethernet Bridging List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Christian Salgado =?UTF-8?B?R29uesOhbGV6?= Cc: bridge@linux-foundation.org On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:19:03 +0100 Christian Salgado Gonz=C3=A1lez wrote: >=20 > Hi Stephen, >=20 > My name is Christian Salgado, I am using brctl in Ubuntu 8.04. I want to = stream media from a server to a specific client. >=20 > I have 3 pcs: server, "switch" and client. On the switch I have 3 etherne= t devices, and, using brctl I have all together. On the client I have two e= thernet devices, and i am using ifenslave to create a bonding interface. Wh= en I send data from the server brctl forward it to any of both interfaces, = or for both at the same time. I know that there are many configurations of = ifenslave, but I would like to modify the internal arp table of brctl, to s= elect the interface which should forward the data. Is it possible?? >=20 The bridge code tries to act like a standard Ethernet bridge. You are trying to do something special and it is not clear. Why do you need this? Why can't you do it with normal connectivity?