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From: Jonathan Tripathy <jonnyt@abpni.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Bridges
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:00:31 +0100
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To: Pascal Hambourg <pascal.mail@plouf.fr.eu.org>, netfilter@vger.kernel.org


On 18/08/10 23:59, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Grant Taylor a =E9crit :
>   =20
>> On 08/17/10 17:44, Jonathan Tripathy wrote:
>>     =20
>>> When using a single Linux host with lots of bridges, would there ev=
er be
>>> a time, even for a few seconds, where traffic would "jump" bridges?
>>>       =20
>> No.  Such should not be possible.
>>     =20
> It depends what "traffic" means. Ethernet frames, no. IP packets, yes=
 if
> the box also acts as an IP router between the bridges.
>   =20
Hmm for such to happen, the bridge where the traffic came in on would=20
have to have an IP address, wouldn't it? Currently, my "public" bridge=20
doesn't have an IP assigned to it...