[Bridge] Possibility of copying over fdb entries.

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On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:41:59 +0800
munro <munro.biswal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> What is wish to do is
> There are four interfaces here
> 
>               PC1---------------------| br0 
> |if0-------------------if2|   br1 | ----------------------PC2
>                                          |        
> |if1------------------- if3|         |
> 
> 
> br0 and br1- are two transperent bridges on separate devices.
> if0 and if1 are two physical interfaces(ports) attached to each of the 
> bridges on  either side.
> 
> What i intend to do is to redirect all traffic coming  towards  br0  
> from PC1 through interface/port if1,  even if the source mac is learnt 
> through if0 and the same on the other bridge br1 on the other device.  
> Similarly, any traffic  coming from PC2  has to go through if2 instead 
> of if3 before it enters br0. So in all, what i want to do is make the 
> link from  br0 to br1 full duplex if the physical links are half-duplex.
> 
> Regards,
> Munro.

That would create a possible loop if the links are full duplex, and that
would be a disaster!  Maybe you could do what you want with the bonding
interface?

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