Re: [Xen-users] Still confused about bridging (I think)

["David Dyer-Bennet" <dd-b@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, September 22, 2008 17:09, Javier Guerra wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 4:47 PM, David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, September 22, 2008 11:24, Dustin Henning wrote:
>>> -Your physical switch could be limiting the port to one MAC or something
>>> like this, I have seen issues with Cisco switches doing so in the past on
>>> this list
>>
>> Interesting.  I'll have to think about how I could test this, because I
believe the switch is from Cisco.
>
> also remember that an intelligent enough switch would detect the loop
you've created by connecting both networks to the same switch (the
software bridge) and disable it.

The bridge shouldn't be causing an actual loop, that's what the
spanning-tree protocol is all about.
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