On Monday 11 July 2005 20:42, Stonie R. Cooper wrote: > _J - I was using budget cards - actually, I have tried two, the > discontinued Hauppauge Nova-S and the BBTI SkyStar2 card. I have a Twinhan > PCI card . . . but we know the story on that one . . my strong preference > is the SkyStar2 card . . . but I have others for verification. > > And the linuxtv stuff is working fine - and I realize that bridging is > off-topic . . . so maybe this would open up the topic on how to rope all > the PID devices together. > > On how I do it: > > # brctl addbr br0 > # brctl stp br0 off > # brctl addif br0 dvb0_0 > # brctl addif br0 dvb0_1 > # brctl addif br0 dvb0_2 > # ifconfig dvb0_0 0.0.0.0 up > # ifconfig dvb0_1 0.0.0.0 up > # ifconfig dvb0_2 0.0.0.0 up > # ifconfig br0 10.230.17.25 up > > And at that point, up through kernel 2.6.11.11, all the traffic that would > normally be on the three dvb-s network devices is now coming across br0. > It makes routing much easier. > > Ray > > On Monday 11 July 2005 20:34, Jeremy Hall wrote: > > How did you get them to bridge together? > > > > Are you using a budget or ff card? > > > > _J > > > > In the new year, stonewall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > This is mostly a sanity check - just to see if anyone else has seen > > > this. > > > > > > I receive multicast ip-by-satellite packets on a single service that > > > uses multiple PIDs. Unfortunately, all the multicast packets come from > > > the same address, so I have to bridge all the resulting dvb0_? devices > > > in order to be able to interface all PIDs and not have all sorts of > > > routing issues. > > > > > > Up through 2.6.11.11, this worked like a charm. With 2.6.12.2, though, > > > I'm sunk. No errors on the bridge creation or roping in the individual > > > dvb0_? devices - dmesg shows that it detected the topology change, and > > > entering the forwarding state. > > > > > > I just love these new "features"; I have posed the same to the > > > linux-kernel list - but was curious, because I cannot be the only that > > > has to do this with the linuxtv drivers. > > > > > > R Cooper > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx > > > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
