--- On Mon, 2/21/11, Sander Klein <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Even if the bridge is filtering traffic, the filtered
> traffic will 
>  still loop. Do you have a functioning spanning-tree setup?

STP was enabled on the shorewall bridge but wasn't on the second bridge I 
accidentally connected. I suppose that if STP had been enabled, I wouldn't have 
witnessed anything (but I won't try it just for kicks...).

Thanks



      

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