Multiple bridges with same interface and broadcast

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mrc
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Multiple bridges with same interface and broadcast

Post by mrc » Tue Dec 05, 2017 9:42 am

Hi,

SoftEther VPN seems to treat broadcast and multicast alike. And documentation states that broadcast and multicast are sent to all users on a Virtual Hub.

To avoid flooding to different users, I want to set up separate Virtual Hubs for each user. I did this, and in addition created a new bridge using the same interface as the bridge for the first VirtualHub. But I see that the MAC Table and IP Table at once have the devices that are available on the first Virtual Hub. a

So in addition to creating dedicated Virtual Hubs, do I also need to use multiple physical NICs to avoid flooding of broadcast and multicast between users?

thisjun
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Re: Multiple bridges with same interface and broadcast

Post by thisjun » Wed Dec 20, 2017 4:21 am

Propagating broadcast packets to all cascaded hubs is very natural behavior on Ethernet.
If you want to block specific broadcast, please try to use 'Access List' function.
http://www.softether.org/4-docs/1-manua ... ccess_List

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