On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 03:51:57 -0600 Sean Reifschneider <jafo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Greetings. I've been experimenting with bridging an ethernet device > with an ethertap device (using the Linux tun/tap driver). This is > running with the bridge code in the Linux kernel version 2.4.20 as > provided by Red Hat (2.4.20-18.9). I also seem to have seen the problem > with 2.4.21 from the Red Hat beta kernel. I'm going to try a generic > kernel as soon as I can get the remote machine rebooted. Good, it is hard to get accurate data with vendor patched kernels. > What I've done is set up the tap device using the OpenVPN software to > another machine, and then want to bridge eth1 to that tap device, with > transport for it happening over eth0. > > Things all seem to work fine for some small period of time, but at some > point it will cause the kernel to Oops (oops output provided below). > The Oops doesn't seem to be load-related. I was able to download a > couple copies of the Linux kernel over it without any problems, then > when I tried setting up policy routing, it oopsed. > > I'm probably going to just switch to a routed network instead of using > the bridge, but I wanted to pass this information on in case it helped > make the bridging more stable. I have a test setup which I can try > reproducing this problem on if it helps. I'd love to dig into the > kernel code, but I don't have the time right now. > > I've dug through the mailing list arcives and looked for more up-to-date > bridge code, but haven't found anything obvious for either of those. > > Thanks, > Sean Are you running with STP turned on? Also, could you try with 2.6.0-test3 to see if it is something that has already been covered by the 2.6 bug fixing?
