From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Lars Täuber" <taeuber@bbaw.de>
Cc: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Bridge] which interface for IP address?
Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 08:20:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100505082021.627ab01b@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100505100604.7cd09d04.taeuber@bbaw.de>
On Wed, 5 May 2010 10:06:04 +0200
Lars Täuber <taeuber@bbaw.de> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> why do all the howtos set the ip address to the brigde? Isn't it also possible to assign the address the real interface?
No. packets get diverted to the bridge before IP processing.
> What's the difference between assigning the address to the bridge and assigning the address to the real interface contained by the bridge?
>
You end up with partial connectivity (send but not receive).
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2010-05-05 8:06 [Bridge] which interface for IP address? Lars Täuber
2010-05-05 15:20 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2010-05-06 7:08 ` Lars Täuber
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