On Thursday 06 December 2007 17:00, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > On Thursday 06 December 2007 15:37:21 Silver Salonen wrote: > > In my case there's a straight connection between bridge1 > > and bridge2 too, so that they don't have to communicate through > > root-bridge. > > Yes, but that also can create a loop and according to STP must be > eliminated. > > Perhaps you can use some inventive IP addressing scheme, to force > direct communication... some ifconfig option(the edge option?) to > force forwarding... a tunnel... or some other weirdness(TM) ;)
Well, I just discovered STP, so I might expect too much from it. I thought that in my scenario (circular VPNs), STP would just discover what's the shortest way (ie. whitch VPN-connection to go) from 192.168.1/24 to 192.168.2/24, from 192.168.1/24 to 192.168.3/24, from 192.168.2/24 to 192.168.3/24 etc, and then just lets all the packets (including layer 2 ones) pass the right bridge, and block them on other bridges, eliminating possibility for loops. If it's not what STP does, then I'm a little confused, what does STP do. -- Silver _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"