Hi, I am writing this email in sincere hope that somebody experienced similar/same problem and found solution to it. The classical bridge setup could be achieved using brctl tool, which could be found at: http://home.regit.org/br2684.html I have an ADSL CO line card Linux based [2.4.24 kernel] with 8 nas interfaces and eth0. Rather than having bridge, the decision was to have a router, which does routing functionality between nasx interfaces and eth0. >From user space, setting up a bridge connection is quite simple. First, the linking an ATM VC with an interface should be done followed by configuring this interface. The syntax of the command is the following: br2684ctl [-c n -e 0|1 -b 0|1 -s buf_size -a [itf].vpi.vci ]+ -a [itf].vpi.vci : ATM PVC number, VPI and VCI. Mandatory -c n : BR2684 interface number such as nas0, nas1,... Mandatory -e 0|1 : Encapsulation method. 0=LLC, 1=VC mux. default is 0, LLC -b 0|1 : Running background. 1=background, 0=foreground. Default is 0 -s buf_size : send buffer size. Default is 8192. The problem with setting bridge with brctl tool is lack of option p 0|1 [bridged or routed functionality]. I'm using more advanced tool based on brctl with additional option p: -p 0|1 : Bridged or routed. 0=routed, 1=bridged Default is 0 [routed]. In other words using ADSL CO line card as IP router makes every nasx and eth0 interfaces to have their own IP addresses. The example of setting a nas0 interface: br2684ctl -b -c 0 -e 0 -p 0 -a 0.0.40, where p is used as Routed mode option. When there is need to configure a WAN connection on CPE side [ADSL modem on other side of twisted pair], there are 5 possible options for WAN connection creation: [1] RFC1483 Bridge [2] RFC1483 Route [3] PPP over ATM [4] PPP over Ethernet [5] IP over ATM [CLIP] Choosing option 2 [RFC1483 Route] as an option follows usage of brctl tool for nas0 interface creation on CO side in routed mode. The actual problem is that routed mode does NOT work after setting the parameters as shown [CPE modem receives packets on WAN, but discards them, finding them as bad]. The problem is solved by creating [on CO side] nasx interfaces in bridged mode. As example, the nas0 interface creation syntax looks a bit different: br2684ctl -b -c 0 -e 0 -p 1 -a 0.0.40, where -p is used as Bridged mode option. On other [CPE] side, the option 1 is used [RFC1483 Bridge (with NAT)] for creating the WAN interface. This works perfectly, albeit both CO and CPE sides are set as routers! Any ideas why RFC1483 Route mode does NOT work? I'll apprecate any ideas which can show me some direction. Best Regards, Zoran Stojsavljevic DKTS Pupin Telecom, s_zoran@xxxxxxxxx __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
