On Thursday 06 December 2007 15:01, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > On Thursday 06 December 2007 13:31:38 Silver Salonen wrote: > > On Thursday 06 December 2007 13:21, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > > > On Thursday 06 December 2007 12:20:18 Atrox wrote: > > > > Well, as I understand, in my case, STP should be enabled mainly on > > > > TAP-interfaces as it would eliminate the scenario where, for an > > > > example, ARP-requests from 192.168.1.1 for 192.168.3.1 reach > > > > 192.168.2.1. Have I understood it correctly? > > > > > > It sounds like you want to isolate the ethernets, not bridge them. > > > Bridging is not what you need, if I have understood correctly. > > > > > > You want to keep ARP and broadcasts to the relevant boxes, right? > > > You have to use VLANs on your switch to achieve this, not bridging. > > > > Actually the final target is to connect all the 3 LANs over VPN, so that > > they can browse eachother networks etc. When I did it, I could see > > duplicate packets looping through all bridges, so I thought I'd bring in > > STP. That's what it's for, right? > > Not really, STP must be used/needed in a dynamic environment to > eliminate loops. Your environment doesn't seem dynamic to me. You > can create a loop-free topology like this: > > http://users.teledomenet.gr/nvass/topology.png > > 1) 10.0.0.0/24 is the shared network. > 2) bridge1 bridges eth0 and tap0 which is the VPN to the root-bridge. > 3) bridge2 bridges eth0 and tap0 which is the VPN to the root-bridge. > 4) root-bridge bridges eth0, tap0 and tap1.
Is all the traffic pass through the root-bridge in this case, so that if bridge1 wants to talk to bridge2, it has to go through root-bridge and not straight? In my case there's a straight connection between bridge1 and bridge2 too, so that they don't have to communicate through root-bridge. -- Silver _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"