On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:45:17 -0600 Vivek Shrivastava <viveks@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > I am running NFS over my soekris boxes, with eth0 as the primary > wired interface (that gets dhcp ip address from the server and loads the > entire NFS filesystem). Now I want to bridge traffic from (some traffic) > eth0 to eth1 (another interface). But as soon as I add eth0 to the > bridge, the box stops responding. I have waited more than 30 sec (the > default bridging fwd delay), but still see no response. I am a new to > this community so I am not sure if this has been already discussed. Any > help will be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks > Vivek You need to use dhcp on the bridge interface. # brctl addbr br0 # ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 # mark up with no address # ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0 # brctl setfd br0 0 # turn off forwarding delay # brctl addif br0 eth0 eth1 # dhclient br0 -- Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
