I had the exact same problem a while ago on a 64-bit PowerPC and hacked my way around it... (can't seem to find the patch now, though)... The first thing you want to do is run: brctl addbr br0 strace brctl addif br0 eth0 and look for what ioctl fails... Post that output and I might be able to point you to the solution... -- Santiago A. Leon Power Linux Development IBM Linux Technology Center Small, Jim wrote: >I was never able to get bridging working on the UltraSPARC architecture. >>From what I have gathered, there is some kind of issue between the 32bit >userland (brctl) and 64bit kernel. If you use Debian, you can get a 64bit >version of brctl, but even with that I could never get it to work. I could >never find anyone who has gotten it to work on the UltraSPARC/Sparc64 >architecture. > >If you're a kernel hacker, you might be able to get some help debugging the >problems if you can suggest new code. Otherwise you'll have to use an x86 >based platform (there bridging works beautifully). > >Perhaps with time this will bill sorted out in the 2.6 kernel??? > ><> Jim > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>I'm having a little trouble with a sprc bridge setup. I am running SuSe >>7.3 for sparc on a Sun Ultra1 Creator3D. >>I compiled 2.4.25 kernel with 802.1d Ethernet Bridging support, and >>installed >>bridge-utils 0.9.6. I've read all of the documentation that I could find >>(Bridging FAQ and >>Bridging HOWTO). But I still get the following errors: >> >>brctl addbr br0 >>brctl addif br0 eth0 >>bridge br0 doesn't exist! >> >>Why not? >> >>brctl addbr br0 >>device br0 already exists; can't create bridge with the same name >> >>I've found on other mailing-lists that sparc systems require the bridge- >>utils64 package, but can only find it for Debian. >> >>Any thoughts on what's going on here? If I compiled the utils from >>source, shouldn't they be the right ones for my system/kernel? >> >>Any help would be greatly appreciated. >> >>
