On Thursday 06 December 2007 17:00, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote:
> On Thursday 06 December 2007 15:37:21 Silver Salonen wrote:
> > 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 c
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 15:37:21 +0200
Silver Salonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? In my case there's a straight connection between
> bridge
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 b
On Thursday 06 December 2007 15:01, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote:
> On Thursday 06 December 2007 13:31:38 Silver Salonen wrote:
> > On Thursday 06 December 2007 13:21, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote:
> > > On Thursday 06 December 2007 12:20:18 Atrox wrote:
> > > > Well, as I understand, in my case, STP should
On Thursday 06 December 2007 13:31:38 Silver Salonen wrote:
> On Thursday 06 December 2007 13:21, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote:
> > On Thursday 06 December 2007 12:20:18 Atrox wrote:
> > > Well, as I understand, in my case, STP should be enabled mainly on
> > > TAP-interfaces as it would eliminate the s
On Thursday 06 December 2007 13:21, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote:
> On Thursday 06 December 2007 12:20:18 Atrox wrote:
> > Well, as I understand, in my case, STP should be enabled mainly on
> > TAP-interfaces as it would eliminate the scenario where, for an example,
> > ARP-requests from 192.168.1.1 for
On Thursday 06 December 2007 12:20:18 Atrox wrote:
> Well, as I understand, in my case, STP should be enabled mainly on
> TAP-interfaces as it would eliminate the scenario where, for an example,
> ARP-requests from 192.168.1.1 for 192.168.3.1 reach 192.168.2.1. Have I
> understood it correctly?
It
Nikos Vassiliadis-2 wrote:
>
> On Thursday 06 December 2007 10:17:36 Atrox wrote:
>> Am I doing smth wrong?
>
> Hm, are these FreeBSD boxes you are trying to bridge,
> on the same ethernet?
>
Yes, all these boxes are connected to our LAN with their ext_ifs. Also, one
of them has a switch and
On Thursday 06 December 2007 10:17:36 Atrox wrote:
> Am I doing smth wrong?
Hm, are these FreeBSD boxes you are trying to bridge,
on the same ethernet?
STP will create a tree by disabling some ports
to eliminate loops in the topology. If you have
a loop-free topology, all ports should be active.
