On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 14:05:03 +0800 "He, Zhenjie" <hezhenjie at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, Stephen/all, > > The situation I meet is similar as this. > > I want to capture BPDU packets go through the Linux bridge, Simpler just to use something like AF_PACKET, or tools like pcapture? > > [internal bridge] --> (connected with a switch) --> [external bridge] --> > workstation, > > [internal bridge]: br1 ip.addr == 192.168.1.2 > [external bridge]: ifconfig br0 192.168.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 up > workstation: ip.addr == 192.168.1.222 > enable the [internal bridge] with stp on, > > My question is, could [internal bridge] generate BPDU packets, and pass the > [external bridge], finally captured on the outside workstation? > > Best regards, Nested bridges are not supported because of possible stack depth and recursion issues.
