Tap and Bridge problem

[Lambert Laurent <lambert.laurent91@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm currently trying to use bridge and tap for my work. In my setup I use two programs communicating though tap interface. I connect the two tap interface with a bridge. 

Now comes the problem, currently only broadcast or multicast frames goes through the bridge. Every unicast frame get drop (or stuck) between the bridge and the input of the tap device. I traced this with tcpdump. The message is seen on the sender tap if, on the bridge and disapears on the receiver tap if.

Also the frame seems to be well formated (tcpdump identifies it properly).

to instanciate a bridge i use :

brctl addbr br0

brctl addif br0 tap0

brctl addif br0 tap1

i then ifconfig up the bridge and the two tap interface.

I also noticed in linux log that the bridge puts tap port in disabled state. 

Did anyone this behavior in the past time ?

Thank you.

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Lambert Laurent