Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 13:21:48 +0200 From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Atrox <silver.salonen@gmail.com> Subject: Re: enabling if_bridge STP Message-ID: <200712061321.48728.nvass@teledomenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <14189511.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <14188023.post@talk.nabble.com> <200712061155.59434.nvass@teledomenet.gr> <14189511.post@talk.nabble.com>
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On Thursday 06 December 2007 12:20:18 Atrox wrote: > Well, as I understand, in my case, STP should be enabled mainly on > TAP-interfaces as it would eliminate the scenario where, for an example, > ARP-requests from 192.168.1.1 for 192.168.3.1 reach 192.168.2.1. Have I > understood it correctly? It sounds like you want to isolate the ethernets, not bridge them. Bridging is not what you need, if I have understood correctly. You want to keep ARP and broadcasts to the relevant boxes, right? You have to use VLANs on your switch to achieve this, not bridging. HTH, Nikos
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