Network Card Strangeness
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Tue Oct 26 14:59:12 UTC 2004
Jonathan Allen wrote:
>>Try http://bridge.sourceforge.net/howto.html for more details on bridging.
>
> This solution would absolutely work for me. I'd have to have the Bridge
> machine itself participating in the network, but the 'howto' tells how
> to do that.
>
> In an ideal world, I would like to inhibit traffic from the fast machines
> being bridged onto the slow machines' part of the network unless it is
> actually directed to them so as to maximise the bandwidth on that part of
> the network, but I can live without that feature.
>
> Does that sound right now ?
Yes; the Linux bridge acts as a switch, so you'll get your desired behaviour
of keeping the "fast" traffic off the "slow" network without even trying :-)
See http://www.linux.com/howtos/BRIDGE-STP-HOWTO/what-is-a-bridge.shtml
Paul.
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