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Hi, I am configuring some servers in a high availability setup. The servers are connected to two switches with two LAN cards in each server. The two switches are connected directly to each other. The servers are configured to bridge eth0 and eth1 with spanning tree. Usually this makes sure eth1 is disabled, unless something happens to eth0. This way I can have one IP address on each server. Now

...(2950) have VLANs 1,10,20,31,32,33,34,50 configured. Here's what I've done so far: - Changed the multicast address on both bridges in order to not conflict with the Cisco switches spanning tree (as described in http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/bridge/2005-October/001116.html) - Enabled the bpdufilter on the trunk connections of both switches - On the bridges: filtering requests originating in one VLAN going into another VLAN i.e. ebtables -A FORWARD -i vlan10 -o ! eth0 -j DROP Here's the output of brctl of both bridges. I'm not sure about the attachement policy in this mailinglist,...