performance about use Linux as a router

tao jiang jiangtao.jit at gmail.com
Thu Jul 7 07:47:57 EDT 2011


2011/7/7 Tharindu Rukshan Bamunuarachchi <btharindu at gmail.com>:
> in this case you are creating STP loop and enable of STP will disable either
> eth1 or eth0.
>
> what are you trying achieve ? Is it just sending packets over both ethernet
> interfaces ?
>
> you better bond those two ethernet interfaces. you need switch configuration
> for proper incoming traffic flow.
> __
> Tharindu "Rukshan" Bamunuarachchi
>
>
>You've got a loop in your Ethernet network and spanning tree is
>disabled.
>The surprising bit is that you manage to get any packets through at all.

>Ethernet packets don't have a TTL field, so if they end up in a loop
>(for example br0 -> eth0 -> LAN -> eth1 -> br0 -> ...) they just keep
>getting repeated.
>
>brctl br0 stp on should fix your network.
>
>I suspect you're trying to do bonding though, which (as far as I know,
>having never played with it myself) is configured completely differently
>and might require support from the switch.
>
>Regards,
>Kristof
>
>

thank you all

today i tried to bring STP on
it seems better now

i did some filtering also

thanks again

best regards.

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jiangtao



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