Linux Ethernet Bridging - Apr 2007 - [Bridge] how to silence the "br0: port X(ethX) doing something" messages?

Greetings,

I'm just wondering how one can make the bridging tools stop spamming the
virtual
consoles? I would rather have all those "entering forwarding state",
"entering
learning state" and "entering disabled state" messages go to a
log than have
them plastered all over whichever console I happened to be logged into to work.

Thanks!

-- 
Martin-Eric Racine
http://q-funk.iki.fi

On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 09:33:06 +0300 (EEST)
Martin-?ric Racine <q-funk@iki.fi> wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm just wondering how one can make the bridging tools stop spamming
> the virtual consoles? I would rather have all those "entering
> forwarding state", "entering learning state" and
"entering disabled
> state" messages go to a log than have them plastered all over
> whichever console I happened to be logged into to work.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
Assuming you are running relatively recent kernel, the messages show up
at loglevel 6 (informational).

You need to change the console log level and possibly
change syslog.conf.  To change console log level, either boot
without "debug" on the command line, preferably with "quiet"
on the command line. In /etc/syslog.conf look for anylines
of the form:

	kern.*	/dev/console
and either comment it out completely, or change the '*'
to
	kern.notice	/dev/console