Re: Win2k3 server MAC bridge does not forward packets

From: Phillip Windell (_at_.)
Date: 03/15/04 

Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:08:47 -0600

I have never done that with two NICs,...don't ever intend to,...sounds like
a train wreck waiting to happen. Maybe if I knew more about it I would be
less sceptical. I'm sure I should know the specifics of "promiscuous", but
am having a "brain-dead" moment with it right now.

The only "bridging" I am familiar with is done with a pair of bridges or a
single (or group) of switches. That is what Layer2 bridging is. Since Layer2
isn't routable (flat address space) in the true sense, bridging is really
all you can do with it anyway. 

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Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com
"David P" <icrashedagain@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:60c93eda.0403141412.7cdd2b92@posting.google.com...
> Hi,
>
>   In my original post, my problem was that packets were not being
> bridged between the two bridged nics.  Aftrer creating the bridge, the
> two nics were NOT in promiscuous mode.  This made me very suspicions
> since they would have to be in promiscuous mode in order to do L2
> bridging right?
>
>   Since this is an L2 bridge I do not see why it would have to have
> any bound protocols...  I left it bound to tcp/ip only, but this issue
> is academic, my real issus is why the forwarding is not happening and
> why the nics are not in promiscuous mode.
>
>
> thanks for your time
> David