Hi, I've setup a Linux (SUSE v. 2.6.16.13-4-smp) in bridging mode. The br0 interface has two physical: eth0 and eth1. The eth0 interface is connected to our LAN, the eth1 is connected to a SONICWALL firewall. STP is turned off, since it's the only bridge connecting the two areas. The bridge is also acting filtering some traffic via iptables. All is working fine, but when I use tcpdump on the eth1 interface, I see all the ARP requests of the LAN. In other words, the entirely ARP broadcasts (that will be resolved internally) are passing the bridge and reaching the firewall. As a bridge, the Linux box should be aware where every machine is located and separate logically the two segments, shouldn't it? Also, the command "arp -a" shows only one address, wether the "brctl showmacs br0" shows all the addresses correctly. Is this a normal behaviour? Thank you for every advice, Raffaele Output of brctl showstp br0 --------------------------------------- br0 bridge id 8000.001560a34be7 designated root 8000.001560a34be7 root port 0 path cost 0 max age 20.00 bridge max age 50.00 hello time 2.00 bridge hello time 5.00 forward delay 37.50 bridge forward delay 15.00 ageing time 300.01 hello timer 1.39 tcn timer 0.00 topology change timer 0.00 gc timer 0.05 flags eth0 (1) port id 8001 state forwarding designated root 8000.001560a34be7 path cost 19 designated bridge 8000.001560a34be7 message age timer 0.00 designated port 8001 forward delay timer 0.00 designated cost 0 hold timer 0.39 flags eth1 (2) port id 8002 state forwarding designated root 8000.001560a34be7 path cost 100 designated bridge 8000.001560a34be7 message age timer 0.00 designated port 8002 forward delay timer 0.00 designated cost 0 hold timer 0.39 flags Output of brctl showmacs br0 ------------------------------------------ 1 00:04:23:0a:a6:13 no 86.16 1 00:04:75:4c:d7:03 no 5.06 1 00:04:75:87:bd:a9 no 138.51 1 00:04:76:a3:c9:b8 no 100.12 2 00:06:b1:11:8d:a4 no 0.07 1 00:0f:20:3b:8e:4e no 41.11 1 00:0f:20:3b:fe:57 no 60.78 1 00:14:69:b4:49:84 no 0.14 1 00:15:60:a3:4b:e7 yes 0.00 1 00:30:c1:5f:24:56 no 28.16 1 00:30:c1:8c:e7:61 no 39.05 2 00:c0:f0:56:51:c6 yes 0.00 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/bridge/attachments/20060830/8f91b509/attachment.htm
