On 2007/10/24 12:29, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >> then. Bridges generally makes it harder to debug and as you say it > >> takes your main redundancy feature off the table. Why not just a > >> carp/pfsync setup? > > > > cause i'm in the same subnet > > if not, carp will be the solution no ? > > still don't see how a bridge would be totally desirable, bu then it's > possible I'm just being incredibly dense.
It can be useful if you want to protect machines from each other without burning a /30 for each one (put them in different vlans and bridge them all together). RSTP bridge + pfsync is fine for this and should failover quickly. You do lose 'demote' though.
