OT: setting up a bridge

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On 09/12/2005 10:54 PM, carlopmart@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> hi all,
> 
>  I am using centos3.5 for my firewall home. I would like to do some 
> tests with bridge firewalling. When i try to create the bridge, brctl 
> givtes me this error: br_add_bridge: Package not installed.
> 
>  i find some answers about this error, but the most important is the one 
> that says driver is not loaded into kernel. In my 
> /boot/config-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL file appears compiled as a module, but how 
> can i load it with modprobe??  .... :((
> 
> Thanky you

I guess, that brctl will not load the module automatically and your 
system doesn't either...

Try it this way:

[root@pluto ~]# modprobe bridge; lsmod | grep bridge
bridge                 52953  0

It's a FC4 in my case, but this should work with CentOS also...

Best,
  Oliver

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