On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 12:49:35 +0800 Wu Yiu Kei <wuyiukei@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, I am a beginner of bridge. I have a problem of using Fedora Core 2 to make a > simple bridge. Here is my setup: > > The bridge computer is installed with Fedore Core 2 (with the SE Linux patch). > As I know that kernel 2.6.5 is already support bridging by default, so I didn't > recompile the kernel. Then I installed bridge-utils-0.9.6-1.i386. And no > additional configuration is made. After comfirming that the 2 ethernet cards > for bridging (eth1 & eth2) are working properly, I build up a bridge by the > following commands: The bridge-utils package on sourceforge.net is up to 1.0.4, with 1.0.5 due out today. > #ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0 promisc > #ifconfig eth2 0.0.0.0 promisc Dont need to put them in promiscious mode. > #brctl addbr mybridge > #brctl addif eth1 > #brctl addif eth2 > #ifconfig mybridge up How are you adding the IP address to mybridge (assuming you want that host to talk on the internet). Usual is: ifconfig mybridge xx.xx.xx.xx > Notice that eth1 is connect to the internet directly, and eth2 is connected to a > host. After setting up the bridge, I tried to use the host to access the > internet, but the behaviour is very strange. It seems that the traffic through > the bridge is extremely slow. It's too slow to request even a webpage. But some > tcp connection can really be established, like up2date. I have checked the > memory of the bridge, but it doesn't seem to be run out of memory. > > So, what's wrong with my bridge? Could anyone help me? Some useful info: brctl show brctl showstp mybridge brclt showmacs mybridge
