From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alpt Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge hub_enabled option Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:14:24 +0200 Message-ID: <20050330111424.GA16289@nihil> References: <20050326224030.GA31822@darkalpt> <20050329142719.4bd7cb57@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============21458369763702345==" Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, bridge@lists.osdl.org Return-path: To: Stephen Hemminger In-Reply-To: <20050329142719.4bd7cb57@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: bridge-bounces@lists.osdl.org Errors-To: bridge-bounces@lists.osdl.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --===============21458369763702345== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 02:27:19PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote : ~> On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 23:40:30 +0100 ~> Alpt wrote: ~> > Bridge hub_enabled patch: ~> > this patch adds the hub_enabled option for bridge. ~> > ~> > By default the hub_enabled flag is set to 1. In this case nothing changes, the ~> > bridge, as usually, acts as a hub and flood_forward the input pkts to all its ~> > ports. When hun_enabled is set to 0, the bridge stops to flood_forward the input ~> > traffic and takes only the pkts sent to it. ~> > Disabling the hub option is useful to join multiple interfaces into a unique virtual ~> > one, thus becomes possible to have easily an ad-hoc network topology using multiple ~> > interfaces. ~> ~> Could you give a better example of how this would be useful? ~> Why would you not want A to talk to C? For example to test a routing protocol. ~> Why not enforce the policy with ebtables? To not rely to the ip addresses but just having x interfaces merged and to have a cleaner and simpler way to do it. Regards -- :wq! "I don't know nothing" The One Who reached the Thinking Matter '.' [ Alpt --- Freaknet Medialab ] [ GPG Key ID 441CF0EE ] [ Key fingerprint = 8B02 26E8 831A 7BB9 81A9 5277 BFF8 037E 441C F0EE ] --===============21458369763702345== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list Bridge@lists.osdl.org http://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge --===============21458369763702345==--