On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:30:03AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:08:00 -0800 (PST)
David Miller [off-list ref] wrote:

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From: Stephen Hemminger <redacted>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:01:02 -0800

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TCP connections are never really bound to device. TCP routing is
flexible; if packets can get through, it doesn't care.

I think he might be talking about SO_BINDTODEVICE

What application does that with TCP?

Seems g500i uses it http://goo.gl/5lIi (function open_tcp_socket),
which is either router firmware or kind of modile device.
But frankly -- this seems to be unrelated to a bridge.

	-- Cyrill