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From: Padraig Brady <padraig.brady@corvil.com>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] bridging troubles
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 14:46:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-106968528330656@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-lartc-106968023824618@msgid-missing>

Robert Kurjata wrote:
> Witaj Padraig,
> 
> W Twoim liœcie datowanym 24 listopada 2003 (14:18:04) mo¿na przeczytaæ:
> 
> PB> Hi, I would like to be able to control
> PB> the slave devices of a bridge independently
> PB> of the bridge interface. For e.g. if I have
> PB> eth0 and eth1 in a bridge eth0-eth1, then
> PB> I the following doesn't give an error,
> PB> but doesn't actually work either?
> 
> PB> ip link set dev eth0 promisc on
> 
> AFAIR in the bridge the interfaces MUST be in promisc mode for the
> bridge to work at all. So the command above has no meaning.

Well it does if I want to stop traffic temporarily.

> PB> However this does work?
> 
> PB> ip link set dev eth0 down

this does stop traffic temporarily, but
has other side affects I don't want.

Pádraig.

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2003-11-24 13:18 [LARTC] bridging troubles Padraig Brady
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