From owner-freebsd-ipfw Sun Oct 13 20:13:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A91E37B401 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 20:13:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta9.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta9.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.5.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1F1543ED1 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 20:13:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from agapon@excite.com) Received: from edge.foundation.invalid (ool-182f90f3.dyn.optonline.net [24.47.144.243]) by mta9.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 0.9 (built Jul 29 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H3Y0094GAV3J4@mta9.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 22:57:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.foundation.invalid [127.0.0.1]) by edge.foundation.invalid (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9E2vNEd015004; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 22:57:23 -0400 (EDT envelope-from agapon@excite.com) Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 22:57:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Andriy Gapon Subject: Re: ip broadcast bridging In-reply-to: <20021013180425.C3866@carp.icir.org> X-X-Sender: avg@edge.foundation.invalid To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <20021013225420.Y15000-100000@edge.foundation.invalid> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > What you see is perfectly normal. > > Bridged interfaces in a cluster are considered as a single "interface", > so irrespective from where you get the traffic, it will be passed > up the stack if it has proper addresses, which is what normally happens for > multicast and broadcast IP packets. > The fact that the interface has no IP associated does not matter, it > is up and running for all practical purposes, and it will recognise > the same traffic as the one on the other interface(s) in the cluster > which have an IP address assigned. > > This is true both for ipfw1 and ipfw2 Luigi, thank you, I think I'm starting to understand how the bridging works. -- Andriy Gapon * "I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ipfw" in the body of the message