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From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@riverviewtech.net>
To: Mail List - Netfilter <netfilter@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bridges
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:52:00 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C6CAA60.60808@riverviewtech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C6C65CD.6090707@plouf.fr.eu.org>

Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> It depends what "traffic" means. Ethernet frames, no. IP packets, yes 
> if the box also acts as an IP router between the bridges.

I took Jonathan's comment to be referring to ethernet frames.

Even if the box is acting as an IP router between the bridges, I view 
that as an operation that is happening out side of the bridge(s).  Thus 
there is an external process that is taking IP packets and passing them 
between the bridges.  As such, the ""traffic is still not ""leaking / 
""flooding between the bridges as a failure or shortcoming of the 
bridge, but rather an external influence.

The same thing can be said about two switches that have a router between 
them.  When the ""traffic goes between the switches it is not because of 
something the switches did, rather the external router's doing.  ;-)



Grant. . . .

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-19  3:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-17 22:44 Bridges Jonathan Tripathy
2010-08-17 22:56 ` Bridges Jan Engelhardt
2010-08-17 23:34   ` Bridges Stephen Hemminger
2010-08-18 11:27 ` Bridges Thomas Jacob
2010-08-18 19:51   ` Bridges Jonathan Tripathy
2010-08-18 21:51 ` Bridges Grant Taylor
2010-08-18 21:57   ` Bridges Jonathan Tripathy
2010-08-18 22:08     ` Bridges Grant Taylor
2010-08-18 22:15       ` Bridges Jonathan Tripathy
2010-08-18 22:26         ` Bridges Jan Engelhardt
2010-08-18 22:51           ` Bridges Jonathan Tripathy
2010-08-18 23:05             ` Bridges Pascal Hambourg
2010-08-18 23:07               ` Bridges Jonathan Tripathy
2010-08-18 23:21                 ` Bridges Pascal Hambourg
2010-08-18 23:23                   ` Bridges Jonathan Tripathy
2010-08-18 23:45                   ` Bridges Jonathan Tripathy
2010-08-19  7:26                     ` Bridges Pascal Hambourg
2010-08-19 18:47                       ` Bridges Jonathan Tripathy
2010-08-19 19:26                         ` Bridges Pascal Hambourg
2010-08-19 19:37                           ` Bridges Jonathan Tripathy
2010-08-19 20:00                             ` Bridges Jan Engelhardt
2010-08-19 20:11                               ` Bridges Jonathan Tripathy
2010-08-19 21:14                             ` Bridges Pascal Hambourg
2010-08-19 21:24                               ` Bridges Jonathan Tripathy
2010-08-19 22:04                                 ` Bridges Pascal Hambourg
2010-08-19 22:53                                   ` Bridges Jonathan Tripathy
2010-08-20  8:53                                     ` Bridges Pascal Hambourg
2010-08-21 21:46                                       ` Bridges Jonathan Tripathy
2010-08-21 23:25                                         ` Bridges Jan Engelhardt
     [not found]                                           ` <4C70E853.6050107@abpni.co   .uk>
2010-08-22  9:05                                           ` Bridges Jonathan Tripathy
2010-08-22  9:09                                             ` Bridges Jan Engelhardt
     [not found]                                               ` <4C70E 9A2.3040907@abpni.co.uk>
2010-08-22  9:10                                               ` Bridges Jonathan Tripathy
2010-08-22 21:02                                                 ` Bridges Pascal Hambourg
     [not found]                                                   ` <4C7194 D3.7070803@abpni.co.uk>
2010-08-22 21:21                                                   ` Bridges Jonathan Tripathy
2010-08-23  8:22                                                     ` Bridges Pascal Hambourg
2010-08-23 20:18                                                       ` Bridges Jonathan Tripathy
2010-08-24  8:57                                                         ` Bridges Karel Rericha
2010-08-24 14:44                                                         ` Bridges Pascal Hambourg
2010-08-24 17:37                                                           ` Bridges Jonathan Tripathy
2010-08-24 18:07                                                             ` Bridges Pascal Hambourg
2010-08-24 18:34                                                               ` Bridges Jonathan Tripathy
2010-08-24 22:20                                                                 ` Bridges Pascal Hambourg
2010-08-20  8:38                                   ` Bridges Jan Engelhardt
2010-08-20  9:05                                     ` Bridges Pascal Hambourg
2010-08-20  9:09                                       ` Bridges Jan Engelhardt
2010-08-20 10:26                                         ` Bridges Pascal Hambourg
2010-08-20 16:02                                           ` Bridges Grant Taylor
2010-08-20 16:18                                             ` Bridges Jan Engelhardt
2010-08-20 16:25                                               ` Bridges Grant Taylor
2010-08-20 16:32                                                 ` Bridges Jan Engelhardt
2010-08-21 12:48                                             ` Bridges Pascal Hambourg
2010-08-21 21:44                                               ` Bridges Grant Taylor
2010-08-19 19:28                         ` Bridges Jan Engelhardt
2010-08-18 22:59   ` Bridges Pascal Hambourg
2010-08-18 23:00     ` Bridges Jonathan Tripathy
2010-08-18 23:11       ` Bridges Pascal Hambourg
2010-08-19  8:29       ` Bridges Jan Engelhardt
2010-08-19  9:16         ` Bridges Pascal Hambourg
2010-08-19  3:52     ` Grant Taylor [this message]
2010-08-19  7:33       ` Bridges Pascal Hambourg
2010-08-19 14:51         ` Bridges Grant Taylor
2010-08-19 14:56           ` Bridges Jan Engelhardt
2010-08-19 15:49             ` Bridges Grant Taylor
2010-08-19 16:21               ` Bridges Jan Engelhardt
2010-08-19 16:41                 ` Bridges Grant Taylor
2010-08-19 17:10                   ` Bridges Jan Engelhardt
2010-08-19 18:36                     ` Bridges Grant Taylor
2010-08-19 17:10                   ` Bridges Rick Jones

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