Daryl may still be correct. Linux's bridge module also implements the
learning phase (for detection of loops) before it begins forwarding packets.
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Adrian May wrote:
> Hi Daryl,
>
> There is no switch. I'm trying to build a router and I'm plugging clients
> dire
Hi Daryl,
There is no switch. I'm trying to build a router and I'm plugging
clients directly into it. It's actually a little fanless thing with 8
ethernet ports, 7 of which I bridge to make the private LAN, and the
other of which dials pppoe. I installed ubuntu server 10.04, followed by
the b
Incidently, before you setup your own recursive server, the big problem
I measure is that without a load of traffic, your latencies are just
terrible because nothing is in cache... I tested a recursive cache on my
rack and it wasn't great, so I looked into the datacenter provided one
and had th
Actually, the "10 dollar domestic router" fix points to the probable
solution. You likely have spanning tree turned on on your usual switch,
which will block all traffic on that port for the first 50 seconds after
a link state change. Either switch to rapid spanning tree, or look into
your switch's
On 24/04/12 04:21, Adrian May wrote:
Hi Simon,
In the meantime I installed ClearOS, which uses dnsmasq. Now the PCs get
served fast but my embedded boards are still not getting IPs. If I plug
these embedded boards into my 10 dollar domestic router, they get an IP
instantly. I already tried setti
