On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:58:57 -0400 Lou Steinberg <lspam5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Richard- > > [snip] > > > > Does a bridge "test" exist? What is the output of brctl show? > > > [snip] > > Yes, the bridge exists. brctl shows: > > > root@wan-bridge:~$ brctl addif test ppp0 > > can't add ppp0 to bridge test: Invalid argument > > root@wan-bridge:~$ echo $? > > 1 > > root@wan-bridge:~$ brctl show > > bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces > > test 8000.000000000000 no > The bridging code only works for devices that have Ethernet headers. That is the way the bridging 802.2 standard works, it is a Layer 2 bridge and it uses the address information from Ethernet to do routing. PPP does not use Ethernet level framing so it can't be bridged. What were you trying to do? there are plenty of other ways to get the same effect. _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
