On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:10:43 -0800 Abhijit Kumbhare <abhijitk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any particular reason why the same physical port cannot be > added to multiple bridges? Is it because of STP? Not just STP, but all the data structures in the code are set up 1-N. For example, there is a pointer in the netdevice structure that contains the bridge to handle the received packet. What would it mean to be part of multiple bridges? Would received packets be process N times by each bridge? > If I am not using STP - can I change the code to have the same physical > port in 2 VLANs? Is that a safe change? Probably not. What are you trying to do? Might to be bridge the physical LAN and do any filtering based on tag using bridge-filtering (ebtables). -- Stephen Hemminger mailto:shemminger@xxxxxxxx Open Source Development Lab http://developer.osdl.org/shemminger
