Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
This is a different point. The bridge wants to know about bridge members MACs just because it should catch the packets that are destined to the bridge members. It is the only way for an L2 thing that is operating in the promiscious mode.
Correct.
For our case (when MACs are the same): I think that rik@ has explained it rather good, so you should read his message once again. Perhaps, we can talk about this off-list and in Russian, if you prefer.
The problem isn't going to go away.
It will get bigger when 802.3ad trunking is introduced. Andrew Thompson is currently working on this code. It may also affect the 802.11 code in future, which as you know is layered around Ethernet.
It would be good to have a well thought out architectural solution for this problem.
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