On Nov 9, 2007 10:23 PM, gianluca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > I'm using linux bridging for a trasparent firewall. > There is some kind of external hardware that I can use to bypass > my firewall in case of failure? > I mean: if I power off my firewall I want to join physically the > two network segments without reconnecting any wire (and possibly without > touching any button)
Any switch that supports spanning tree will do... make sure that the firewall is preferred (by setting spanning tree cost and priority), then the other switch will start bridging automatically within a few seconds if the firewall ever stops forwarding the spanning tree pdus. > > Thank You > Gianluca > _______________________________________________ > Bridge mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge > _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
