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xavanos11

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Registered: 2014-11-10

Posts: 7

Bridge to Bridge & Router

Need to set up OSI Layer 2 forwarding aka. network bridge.

I've got on one side an enthernet router, and on the other another (hardware) bridge that is itself connected to another Ethernet network.

So my network looks like this

Router
|
|
Bridge (arch box)
|
|
Hardware Bridge
|
|
WLAN

Arch Linux will be where I denoted "arch box".

I've seen the wiki page on network bridges here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bridge_with_netctl

Question is, if one side of the bridge is itself a bridge, do I need to adjust the settings? or will be ok with this in my netctl profile:

Description="Example Bridge connection"
Interface=br0
Connection=bridge
BindsToInterfaces=(eth0)
IP=static
Address='192.168.10.20/24'
Gateway='192.168.10.200'
## Ignore (R)STP and immediately activate the bridge
SkipForwardingDelay=yes

Thanks in advance