Re: Bridges

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On Saturday 2010-08-21 23:46, Jonathan Tripathy wrote:
>>>     
>> Setting net.ipv4.conf.<interface>.forwarding=0 will disable forwarding
>> of IP packets received on<interface>. But I'm afraid it won't disable
>> all IP operation on it (ARP resolution, accept IP packets for local
>> delivery...)
>
>Just out of interest, if routing was enabled on the Dom0, how would
>the guests be able to use it,

Well, by means of `ebtables -t broute -j DROP` which causes packets
to be routed instead of bridged.

>if the bridge that they were connected
>to didn't have an IP address?

Because routing won't happen with brX, but with vifX.

>Assuming that all IPs for the other
>interfaces on the Dom0 were on a different subnet..
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