On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 16:22:56 +0200 Marc Balmer wrote: > On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:27:36 +0200 > Jan Roeloffzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > NETWORK and SERVERS should be on the same subnet to make it work with a > > bridge. Your second setting with routers suggests they are not? > > In my setting, they actually are in the same subnet. The bridge "divides" the > ethernet segement in two parts, both contain hosts in the same subnet. > > Yet, it does not work.... > > - Marc > It cannot work. Bridges are layer 2 devices. They forward packets based on layer 2 addresses. Rewriting the IP address (layer 3) is something the bridge will not notice, because there is no routing involved and hence no lookup of the (new) layer 2 address. The bridge simply forwards to the original layer 2 address.
Dieter --- Dieter Kasielke, ZRZ (Zentraleinrichtung Rechenzentrum), Sekr.: EN 50, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Einsteinufer 17, D-10587 Berlin, GERMANY. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], phone: +49 30 314 - 23733, fax: - 21060
