On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:26:43 -0700 Bryan Waters <bryanw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm trying to debug my bridge...i've sent an email to the list but i'm > not yet approved by the moderator. Can you help me? > > thx > -bryanw > > ---------------------------------- Email to Bridge Mailing List > ----------------------------------------- > I've got a 2.6.8 kernel with bridging enabled as a module, two nics > (LNE100TX and RTL8139) and i've run the following commands with no errors > > modprobe -v bridge > brctl addbr br0 > brctl addif br0 eth0 > brctl addif br0 eth1 > > both interfaces have 0.0.0.0 as their addresses and brctl showmacs br0 > shows the macs for both internal cards. However, bridging doesn't seem > to be working at all. What am I missing or what else can I try to debug > what might be wrong? Are the eth0, eth1 marked as up? also it takes a while for the spanning tree timers to go from learning to forwarding state. Look at brctl show stp br0
