> > Hi. > > Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > Have you tried "brctl setageingtime br0 0" to turn off > > forwarding table? > > I wonder if it would be worth to introduce some kind of "monitor > interface" for a brigde (as can be found on switches, don't know if > "monitor port" would be the correct term for it). > > The bridge could work as usual, while this virtual interface sees every > packet that traverses the bridge. tcpdump & co could be used on this > interface when needed. As an addition it should be possible to > enable/disable this interface using a new brctl command (something like > "brctl br0 monitor on|off"). > > Comments? If there's interest in such a function I possibly could spend > some time on it after christmas. I have already made one for the 2.4.20 kernel module and the 1.0.4 bridge-utils. Since I was making this for the Emulab testbed I also had to change the src/dst MACs that were going to the tap; otherwise, the underlying switch would drop the mirrored packets as their MAC's were not registered on the VLAN where the tap sat. If people have any interest in this I can share with the code. Roman > > Bye, Mike > _______________________________________________ > Bridge mailing list > Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
