On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:44:59 -0700 "Kelvin Chan" <kelvinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Stephen, > > --god, I hate outlook. Sorry, was trying to insert an line break > but instead sent the email. -- > > I'm trying to create an multicast enabled Ethernet bridge using ppp > and brctl. > > I tried: > brctl addbr br0 > brctl addif eth0 > brctl addif ppp0 > > after last command, I get: > can't add ppp0 to bridge br0: Invalid argument > > both eth0 and ppp0 are up and have an address. I googled around > and found this an issue with the kernel bridge code. However, in > Linux Foundation's bridge-utils documentation, it didn't mention > the required kernel version. I'm running 2.6.18 from Debian Etch. > > Can you give me any hints to bridge an ppp to eth device? > Won't work because PPP is a tunneling interface so it doesn't have an ethernet header required for bridging. Layer 2 versus Layer 3 issue. _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
