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From: Michal Soltys <soltys@ziu.info>
To: sclark46@earthlink.net
Cc: Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bridging broken/unfriendly
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:21:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E833B7B.50409@ziu.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E7E5976.1070200@earthlink.net>

On 11-09-25 00:28, Stephen Clark wrote:
> 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?
>

You can do that, though you have to remember about proper routing, and 
you will need ebtables to make some of the traffic not go through the 
bridge.

Check http://ebtables.sourceforge.net/examples/basic.html#all for more 
details.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-28 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-24 22:28 Bridging broken/unfriendly Stephen Clark
2011-09-28 15:21 ` Michal Soltys [this message]
2011-09-28 15:30 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-09-28 16:10   ` Stephen Clark

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