On Thursday 06 December 2007 15:37:21 Silver Salonen wrote: > Is all the traffic pass through the root-bridge in this case, so that if > bridge1 wants to talk to bridge2, it has to go through root-bridge and > not straight?
Yes, they'll have to go through the root-bridge. STP will create a tree by shutting down ports causing loops. That's how STP works. It's all about avoiding loops... Not following the shortest path is not very important for a layer two device. Creating a loop in the topology and bringing the network down because of it, is. > In my case there's a straight connection between bridge1 > and bridge2 too, so that they don't have to communicate through > root-bridge. Yes, but that also can create a loop and according to STP must be eliminated. Perhaps you can use some inventive IP addressing scheme, to force direct communication... some ifconfig option(the edge option?) to force forwarding... a tunnel... or some other weirdness(TM) ;) Nikos _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
