On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 11:47:26AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hmmm, very neat. Am I right then in assuming I need a bridge at each end > of the PPP link? Yes. > As I understand it the bridge only transfers the > packets destined for the network on the other side of the bridge so > having a bridge at each end should prevent the PPP link from being > saturated with 10/100 Mbs local traffic on the end networks. Yes, but. Multicast and broadcast packets will get passed to the other end regardless. > If I give > the home bridge an IP address can it then provide services such as > DHCP? Yes. Assign the address to the bridge interface (e.g. 'br0'). > Thanks for your quick reply Lennert and for your very useful software! Thanks. cheers, Lennert _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge
