On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:01:51 +0000 Alex Zeffertt <ajz at cambridgebroadband.com> wrote: > Hi Majjari, > > We've solved the problem now. It turned out that the bridge_list in the > kernel was not being corrupted. The problem was actually that > "brctl show" was only returning the last 32 bridges created. We upped > this to 2048, which required a brctl change and also a kernel module change. > > The patch is attached. > > HTH, > > Alex Actually, I would prefer NOT to send this upstream for later 2.4 releases because the 2.4 code is in long term stability mode, and support >32 bridges is an enhancement, not a bug.