> Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>
> > it looks like it essentially reverts to the old (1.75) behaviour,
> > . . . when bridging is compiled in (and now, when bridging is
> > enabled), arp requests do not consider the interface from which
> > the request came from. . . . there are some cases where you are
> > doing bridging separately on clusters of interfaces, . . .
>
> In my case, I want to maintain two distinct clusters on my bridge --
> one cluster with publicly accessible IP addresses (part of the Internet
> at large), and another cluster with private IP addresses (for a local
> network that is allowed to access the Internet only through proxies).
>
> If I implement Julian's mod in my bridge, am I going to run into
> problems with misdirected ARP packets? Or should I be safe because
> my two clusters are dealing with completely separate groups of IP
> addresses (one external, the other internal)?
the answer is in the first line... it will be the same as before.
There are surely situation where you can have misbehaviours,
though i cannot think of an easy and general example.
cheers
luigi
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