On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:24:56 -0700 "Roman Lisagor" <RLisagor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Stephen, > > We are doing this for a network testing product. Our box sits between > two devices (e.g. one connected to eth0 and one to eth1) which > communicate with each other, so we bridge the two interfaces to maintain > communication between the two sides. One of the devices (connected to > eth0) is under test so we need to send and receive traffic to and from > that device and want to be sure that none of the _test_ traffic is also > going to eth1. Raw sockets are used to create the traffic on eth0. > > In most cases this works well, but in some cases (which are very > difficult to reproduce or determine the pattern for) we see incoming > packets on the bridge instead of the interface. > > Also, what do you mean when you say that addresses are not assigned to > interfaces? (Isn't that the result of running "ifconfig ethX > ip.ip.ip.ip"?) > > Thanks again, > Roman. > A per previous suggestion, use ebtables. It is the best way to get selective traffic control or any other hacks. _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
