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Using 2 Bridges Simultaneously for "Load Balancing"

Bridge Andre iosT 2 participants 2 messages Nov 25, 2008 Ethernet bridge

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Thanks a lot, that worked like a charm! Would you be so kind as to enlighten me ;)? I guess, the "bridge_stp off" disables the spanning tree protocol, or whatever this is called, right? What is the "bridge_fd
0" for?

Again, thanks for this fast solution!

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Thanks a lot, that worked like a charm! Would you be so kind as to enlighten me ;)? I guess, the "bridge_stp off" disables the spanning tree protocol, or whatever this is called, right? What is the

Yes. I guess you don't need it with your configuration.

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"bridge_fd 0" for?

sets the bridge forward delay to 0 seconds. That way you do not have delays when you boot your host.

see "man brctl"

- Dietmar