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Port mirroring with Linux bridges

Port mirroring with the most popular Linux bridge implementations.

Linux bridge: MAC addresses and dynamic ports

Scenario: KVM virtualization host running several bridged guests. The host has a bridge interface br0 that starts out containing only eth0, and other interfaces are dynamically added and removed from the bridge as guests are started and stopped. The problem is, the host seems to randomly suffer some loss of connectivity (from a few to […]