Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]> schrieb: > 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.
Oh, I see. That's a reason to do it like it is written everywhere. > > 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). Thanks Lars _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
