Re: enabling if_bridge STP

2007-12-07 Thread Silver Salonen
On Thursday 06 December 2007 17:00, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On Thursday 06 December 2007 15:37:21 Silver Salonen wrote: In my case there's a straight connection between bridge1 and bridge2 too, so that they don't have to communicate through root-bridge. Yes, but that also can create a

enabling if_bridge STP

2007-12-06 Thread Atrox
cost 55 disabled member: sk0 flags=7LEARNING,DISCOVER,STP port 1 priority 128 path cost 55 disabled = Am I doing smth wrong? -- Silver -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/enabling-if_bridge-STP-tf4954594.html#a14188023 Sent from the freebsd-questions

Re: enabling if_bridge STP

2007-12-06 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 06 December 2007 10:17:36 Atrox wrote: Am I doing smth wrong? Hm, are these FreeBSD boxes you are trying to bridge, on the same ethernet? STP will create a tree by disabling some ports to eliminate loops in the topology. If you have a loop-free topology, all ports should be active.

Re: enabling if_bridge STP

2007-12-06 Thread Atrox
|| 192.168.8.16/24 == 192.168.8/24 == == - GW/NAT - ||192.168.2/24 192.168.8.17/24 - GW/NAT - 192.168.3/24 -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/enabling-if_bridge-STP-tf4954594.html#a14189511 Sent from the freebsd-questions

Re: enabling if_bridge STP

2007-12-06 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 06 December 2007 12:20:18 Atrox wrote: Well, as I understand, in my case, STP should be enabled mainly on TAP-interfaces as it would eliminate the scenario where, for an example, ARP-requests from 192.168.1.1 for 192.168.3.1 reach 192.168.2.1. Have I understood it correctly? It

Re: enabling if_bridge STP

2007-12-06 Thread Silver Salonen
On Thursday 06 December 2007 13:21, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On Thursday 06 December 2007 12:20:18 Atrox wrote: Well, as I understand, in my case, STP should be enabled mainly on TAP-interfaces as it would eliminate the scenario where, for an example, ARP-requests from 192.168.1.1 for

Re: enabling if_bridge STP

2007-12-06 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 06 December 2007 13:31:38 Silver Salonen wrote: On Thursday 06 December 2007 13:21, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On Thursday 06 December 2007 12:20:18 Atrox wrote: Well, as I understand, in my case, STP should be enabled mainly on TAP-interfaces as it would eliminate the scenario

Re: enabling if_bridge STP

2007-12-06 Thread Silver Salonen
On Thursday 06 December 2007 15:01, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On Thursday 06 December 2007 13:31:38 Silver Salonen wrote: On Thursday 06 December 2007 13:21, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On Thursday 06 December 2007 12:20:18 Atrox wrote: Well, as I understand, in my case, STP should be

Re: enabling if_bridge STP

2007-12-06 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 06 December 2007 15:37:21 Silver Salonen wrote: Is all the traffic pass through the root-bridge in this case, so that if bridge1 wants to talk to bridge2, it has to go through root-bridge and not straight? Yes, they'll have to go through the root-bridge. STP will create a tree by

Re: enabling if_bridge STP

2007-12-06 Thread RW
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 15:37:21 +0200 Silver Salonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is all the traffic pass through the root-bridge in this case, so that if bridge1 wants to talk to bridge2, it has to go through root-bridge and not straight? In my case there's a straight connection between bridge1 and