On Wed, 5 May 2010 10:06:04 +0200 Lars Täuber <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi there, > > why do all the howtos set the ip address to the brigde? Isn't it also > possible to assign the address the real interface? No. packets get diverted to the bridge before IP processing. > What's the difference between assigning the address to the bridge and > assigning the address to the real interface contained by the bridge? > You end up with partial connectivity (send but not receive). -- _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
