On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 09:21 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:28:07 -0700 > "Roman Lisagor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > We need to bridge several interfaces together, but still retain the > > ability to communicate through the individual interfaces. So for > > example, we have eth0 and eth1 bridged and we bind IP addresses to both > > of them, in order to inject packets into communication between two > > devices connected to our interfaces. > > > > > Addresses in Linux aren't assigned to interfaces. > Look up the regular questions that come up about Linux responding > to ARP on the wrong interface. > > > It seems that several problems arise intermittently: > > > > 1. When sending ping requests, replies sometimes come in on eth0/1, but > > sometimes on br0. We can work around this, but it would be great to get > > some idea of why and when this happens (and possibly whether we can > > prevent it from occurring); > > > > 2. Occasionally, ARP requests sent by external devices for the IPs of > > eth0/1 are ignored. > > > > We are running Fedora Core 6 (2.6.13-15-smp). > > Any ideas? > > > > Thanks in advance for your help. > > > > Roman
You should look at using ebtables to control the ARP. This is how we handle it. Brad Dameron Systems Engineer Clearw're _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
