On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Brodie, Laura (Mission Systems) <Laura.Brodie@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Help please, > > My goal is to create a bridge to do traffic shaping for a subnet. > I am trying to create a bridge following the Linux Foundation sample > setup in a VMware CentOS guest OS (before the router) using the > commands: > > brctl addbr br0 > brctl addif br0 eth0 > brctl addif br0 eth1 > ifconfig eth0 down > ifconfig eth1 down > ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 up > ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0 up > ifconfig eth1 192.168.1.167 > > The problem: A flood of ARP requests from the Vyatta machine > (10.244.2.19) looking for the DNS Server (10.244.2.1) on the upper > network shuts down the entire network. ARP requests are almost never issued in floods. Most likely you have a bridging loop duplicating the packets (maybe without reducing TTL) and multiplying the traffic a thousand-fold. Consider enabling spanning tree or break the bridging loop. Also, you should put IP addresses on the bridge, not the member interfaces. Try: ifconfig eth0 up ifconfig eth1 up ifconfig br0 192.168.1.167 up as your last three entries. > > Thanks, > Laura Lee _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
