Bridges create a broadcast zone. broadcast packets will cross the bridge
unobstructed.

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Nick Evans wrote:

> Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't bridging of two interfaces supposed to
> make a duplicate of the traffic from one onto another? Why is it then that
> on the second interface I bridge to I only see broadcast and multicast
> packets? I have fxp0 and fxp1 acting as a bridge, fxp0 sees all kinds of
> http traffic, napster, IM, etc. but fxp1 sees only multi/broadcast packets.
> 
> any ideas?
> 
> 
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