Network Card Strangeness

[Paul Howarth]

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.