Jonathan Tripathy a écrit : > On 18/08/10 23:59, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> >> Grant Taylor a écrit : >> >>> On 08/17/10 17:44, Jonathan Tripathy wrote: >>> >>>> When using a single Linux host with lots of bridges, would there ever be >>>> a time, even for a few seconds, where traffic would "jump" bridges? >>>> >>> No. Such should not be possible. >>> >> It depends what "traffic" means. Ethernet frames, no. IP packets, yes if >> the box also acts as an IP router between the bridges. >> > Hmm for such to happen, the bridge where the traffic came in on would > have to have an IP address, wouldn't it? I don't think so, the bridge interface just needs to be linked to the IP stack (which is now done automatically by recent kernels AFAIK). Routers can have unnumbered interfaces. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
