On Tue, 30 May 2006 23:46:25 +0200 Samuel Díaz García <samueldg at arcoscom.com> wrote: > I'm having a problem with brctl when I want to set prio in a bridge port. > > When I execute: > > brctl setbridgeprio br0 eth1 10 > > (for example) All it ends up doing is writing a 10 to /sys/class/net/br0/bridge/port_cost The problem (or feature) is that the bridge will autodetect the port cost based on the link speed when the bridge or port is started up. So you need to change the port cost after the bridge is already running to cause any effect. > > I can see how that value (10) is asigned to the port cost. > > Is this a known issue with this version? > > I detected this with FC5 bridge-utils package and with dd-wrt bridge-utils. > > Any help about this? >
