Re: Bridging bridges

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Hi

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 05:24, Vimal <j.vimal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> From what I understand, bridging ifaces is equivalent to connecting
> the ifaces to a single physical ethernet switch.  Suppose I have two
> bridges:
>
> * br0 bridging eth00 and eth01
> * br1 bridging eth10 and eth11
>
> I wish to connect br0 and br1.  In theory, this is nothing but
> bridging eth{00,01,10,11} using a single bridge.  In practice,
> however, there's a single physical cable/link that acts like a
> bottleneck between the two switches.  I wish to recreate this
> situation.  Could someone point me how to do it?

The way I see it, you're not really tempted to create bridge of
bridges, but instead traffic congestion simulation. Am I right?

If that's right, AFAIK and IIRC,there's netfilter module, but not
official one from netfilter team, that does just the way you wanna do.
Try to google...

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