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This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS Enable the following options in the kernel configuration and recompile the kernel if necessary:. Install bridge-utils by running the following commands:. Two of the tests require two ethernet ports. Some tests will not preserve the current network configuration. Search PyPI Search. Latest version Released: Jul 13, Python brctl wrapper. Navigation Project description Release history Download files.

Project links Homepage. Maintainers udragon. Project description Project details Release history Download files Project description Pybrctl Pybrctl is a pure Python library for managing bridges. Project details Project links Homepage. Download files Download the file for your platform. The network interface corresponding to the bridge must be down before it can be deleted! Each bridge has a number of ports attached to it. Network traffic coming in on any of these ports will be forwarded to the other ports transparently, so that the bridge is invisible to the rest of the network i.

The bridge keeps track of ethernet addresses seen on each port. When it needs to forward a frame, and it happens to know on which port the destination ethernet address specified in the frame is located, it can 'cheat' by forwarding the frame to that port only, thus saving a lot of redundant copies and transmits.

However, the ethernet address location data is not static data. Machines can move to other ports, network cards can be replaced which changes the machine's ethernet address , etc.

Multiple ethernet bridges can work together to create even larger networks of ethernets using the IEEE This protocol is used for finding the shortest path between two ethernets, and for eliminating loops from the topology. As this protocol is a standard, Linux bridges will interwork properly with other third party bridge products.