On Thursday 18 August 2005 07:02, John Heffner wrote: > 1) Bridging occurs at the link layer (ethernet); fragmenting occurs at the > network layer (IP). > > 2) A lot of protocols set the Don't Fragment bit, so you can't always > fragment anyway. > > What you might want to do is set it up as an IP router rather than a > bridge. That way, it will be able to fragment, or send ICMP responses when > it can't.
Gaahh. Thanks for filling in that gaping comprehension hole. In retrospect it is perfectly obvious that routing is what I need, and that bridging just comes close enough to confuse me ;-) Regards, Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
