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My bridge does not show up in traceroute!

It's not supposed to. The operation of a bridge is (supposed to be) fully transparent to the network, the networks that a bridge connects together are actually to be viewed as one big network. That's why the bridge does not show up in traceroute; the packets do not feel like they are crossing a subnet boundary.

For more information on this, read a book about TCP/IP networking.

It doesn't work!

It says: “br_add_bridge: bad address” when I try to add a bridge!

Either your kernel is old (2.2 or earlier), or you forgot to configure Ethernet bridging into your kernel.

networking/bridge.1522228824.txt.gz · Last modified: 2018/03/28 09:20 by MdRayhan