On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 12:13:07PM -0400, Nick Evans wrote:
> Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't bridging of two interfaces supposed to
> make a duplicate of the traffic from one onto another? Why is it then that
> on the second interface I bridge to I only see broadcast and multicast
> packets? I have fxp0 and fxp1 acting as a bridge, fxp0 sees all kinds of
> http traffic, napster, IM, etc. but fxp1 sees only multi/broadcast packets.

Bridging will only bridge unicast packet's who's destination MAC adress is
on the other side of the bridge.

/Jesper

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