>There is a also the caveat: The switch will probably _not_ forward the STP BPDU's from one port to another.
You were correct -- my initial testing confirmed this. Would the same issue arise if I employed a gateway IP on the /bridge/ instead, and used CARP as a failover mechanism? The firewall no longer becomes transparent pass through/firewall. I have not done carp with bridges and I'm not 100% certain the same STP forwarding problems wouldn't arise, even with an IP assigned. Such as : [switch 1 (vlan 1)] | | [fw1 gw1] -- CARP -- [fw2 gw1] | | [switch 1 (vlan 2)] Thanks, Kevin _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
