Re: [Bridge] About local delivery of bridged packets

Aijaz Baig aijazbaig1 at gmail.com writes: Hello, I am trying to understand how does the bridging code determine if the packet is to be delivered locally or is it to be forwarded. Before being delivered locally, I mean the packet is to be delivered either to br0 or to a non enslaved

[Bridge] Why should static MAC address match one of the port MAC addresses.

Hi all, I've read many messages on this mailing list with the question about setting a static MAC address on the bridge interface, but two questions remain: 1. Why should the MAC address of the bridge match the address of one of its interfaces? Setting the MAC address to a different value does

Re: [Bridge] About local delivery of bridged packets

On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:01:08 + (UTC) Aijaz Baig aijazba...@gmail.com wrote: Aijaz Baig aijazbaig1 at gmail.com writes: Hello, I am trying to understand how does the bridging code determine if the packet is to be delivered locally or is it to be forwarded. Before being

Re: [Bridge] Why should static MAC address match one of the port MAC addresses.

On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:40:25 +0200 Michel Lammertink mlammert...@ti-wmc.nl wrote: Hi all, I've read many messages on this mailing list with the question about setting a static MAC address on the bridge interface, but two questions remain: 1. Why should the MAC address of the bridge

Re: [Bridge] Real time issues when using a bridge

On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:31:36 +0200 Jean-Michel Hautbois jhautb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there ! I am facing a jitter issue that I will try to explain : I have the following configuration : (A) eth0 -- br0 -- eth1 (B) I have a small and custom kernel (I removed netfilter, for instance)