On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 3:55 AM, Niels Dettenbach (Syndicat IT&Internet) <n...@syndicat.com> wrote: > On 12. Oktober 2014 10:08:43 MESZ, Manuel Bouyer <bou...@antioche.eu.org> > wrote: >>No, on NetBSD you can't configure an IP address on a bridge interface. > > hmm, ok, but this confuses me a bit. > > If you define the IP on one of the n ifaces of a bridge how the IP could be > reached/managed/used if that iface leaves the bridge or "just" got > down/deleted? > > Or does NetBSD did not know the concept of a IP of a bridge (as i.e. on > linux) or is there any other official comparable concept? > > Many thanks for any hint.
I think he's saying that NetBSD is behaving as a layer 2 switch with 2 links. Spanning tree "solves" which interface is active elsewhere (or can NetBSD run it? I don't know). Since you have a switch, frames are sent to whatever interface owns the IP via the arp table. So it only takes 1 of the 2 links to be up, doesn't matter which. So it's not load balancing, but I think that was the point of the original post. And I'm confused about "link1" in agr as well now that I read it again. Andy
