From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754167Ab1IWNaK (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:30:10 -0400 Received: from elasmtp-masked.atl.sa.earthlink.net ([209.86.89.68]:40394 "EHLO elasmtp-masked.atl.sa.earthlink.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752422Ab1IWNaH (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:30:07 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=dk20050327; d=earthlink.net; b=Y4Uu+JIL537+eolBdqHX6H689pgt3W7KVG6hLaThPV1FGvRmN892PLoVXv7yUOVq; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:Subject:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-ELNK-Trace:X-Originating-IP; Message-ID: <4E7C89DE.8090308@earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:30:06 -0400 From: Stephen Clark Reply-To: sclark46@earthlink.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101027 Fedora/3.0.10-1.fc12 Thunderbird/3.0.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel Subject: Bridging unfriendly Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: a437fbc6971e80f61aa676d7e74259b7b3291a7d08dfec798a5fdcae153e77b266abce40e091ad6e350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 69.22.83.66 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, Is there some reason Linux bridging won't let the ip address be on one of the interfaces, like FreeBSD does, instead of the bridge device? This makes it very difficult or impossible to remotely add the interface you are remoted in on to a bridge, or is there some sneaky way to do this without losing your connection? Thanks, Steve -- "They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Ben Franklin) "The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases." (Thomas Jefferson)