On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Jasper O'Malley wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Julian Elischer wrote:
>
> > If you want any of these packets to also be passed to the local machine
> > you should select one of the local interfaces (any will do) and add it in
> > the LOCAL_INTERFACE entry. This entry specifies to the bridging code that
> > the upper (i.e. KERNEL side) of that interface should also be added to the
> > list of recipients of the packets being worked on.
> >
> > If you do not do this, the interfaces are linked to each other by the
> > bridging code, but the local machine is not party to the traffic. No copy
> > of the packets is sent up to it.. (this is a vaild configuration...)
>
> Ah. So you can't ifconfig the virtual bridge interface (e.g. bnet0) and
> configure IP protocol information on it, then?
Yes you can.. it's the only one you can... teh others will
accept addresses but they won't work...
>
> If not, I misunderstood how the bridge interface behaves. I was thinking
> that it acted more or less like a BVI interface does on a Cisco router.
> Specifying the LOCAL_INTERFACE will work for me, though. Thanks.
>
> Cheers,
> Mick
>
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