Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge hub_enabled option

From: Alpt <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:14:24 +0200

On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 02:27:19PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote  :
~> On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 23:40:30 +0100
~> Alpt <[email-masked]> wrote:
~> > Bridge hub_enabled patch:
~> > this patch adds the hub_enabled option for bridge.
~> > 
~> > By default the hub_enabled flag is set to 1. In this case nothing changes, the
~> > bridge, as usually, acts as a hub and flood_forward the input pkts to all its
~> > ports. When hun_enabled is set to 0, the bridge stops to flood_forward the input
~> > traffic and takes only the pkts sent to it.
~> > Disabling the hub option is useful to join multiple interfaces into a unique virtual
~> > one, thus becomes possible to have easily an ad-hoc network topology using multiple
~> > interfaces.
~> 
~> Could you give a better example of how this would be useful?
~> Why would you not want A to talk to C? 

For example to test a routing protocol.

~> Why not enforce the policy with ebtables?

To not rely to the ip addresses but just having x interfaces merged and to have
a cleaner and simpler way to do it.

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