> Roman Glebov wrote: >> Hallo, >> >> i have here transparent linux based bridge. >> >> The problem is : all stp packets which come to one side of the Bridge >> are >> not forwarded to the other side. Which distrubs stp when this device is >> put inbetween of two stp capable devices. >> It forwards all traffik through it. >> Normal udp/tcp traffik is forwarded. >> >> I switched stp on it "off" so it does not participate in Spanning tree >> communications. >> >> It is a very simple setup : >> br0 with eth0 and eht1 as ports. without any additional firewall rules. >> >> >> I am using 2.6.18-4-686 debian kernel(testing). >> >> i even did setfd br0 0. >> >> >> What am i doing wrong ? >> >> Do i need to use ebtables to explicitely forward the traffic? >> > Turn on STP in the bridge, it will then receive process and send it's > own STP BPDU's. > > this makes my "stealth" bridge not stealphy anymore! because you can see in bptu packets its mac. That is what i want to prevent. I want it to be completely transparent and not seen in the network traffic. So should i patch the kernel for it ? Roman Glebov _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
