On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 19:04 +0200, Jaime Nebrera wrote: > Hi all, > Hi Jaime!
> So, some questions: > > 1) Is this related to running as a bridge? Would this problem > disappear if we used a pseudo bridge (proxy ARP)? > I don't know, but i would assume that you should ask this question on the kernel bridge list (You find it under http://bridge.sourceforge.net/), the people on this List have deep knowledge on the linux networking/driver subsystems. > 2) Can such a beast sustain 8 ethernet as a single bridge? Bear in > mind they dont have gigabit traffic, they just use gigabit ethernets :) > Whats the limit for a linux bridge? > see above... But i doubt you can run this under full speed on all interfaces (or better the pci-express ones)... > 3) As this traffic is only needed on both routers but doesnt need to > pass trough the firewall, will dropping it on eth0 solve the problem? > (That way there is no way the packets enter into other ethernet ports) > What would happen with other multicast based apps? Would they need to be > dropped too? Another good question for the bridge list ;-) > > Very thankful in advance. Regards. > --arne -- Arne Bernin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.ucBering.de ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own Applications - visit http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
