On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:26:43 -0700
Bryan Waters <bryanw@abwaters.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to debug my bridge...i've sent an email to the list but
i'm
> not yet approved by the moderator. Can you help me?
>
> thx
> -bryanw
>
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> I've got a 2.6.8 kernel with bridging enabled as a module, two nics
> (LNE100TX and RTL8139) and i've run the following commands with no
errors
>
> modprobe -v bridge
> brctl addbr br0
> brctl addif br0 eth0
> brctl addif br0 eth1
>
> both interfaces have 0.0.0.0 as their addresses and brctl showmacs br0
> shows the macs for both internal cards. However, bridging doesn't seem
> to be working at all. What am I missing or what else can I try to debug
> what might be wrong?
Are the eth0, eth1 marked as up? also it takes a while for the spanning
tree timers to go from learning to forwarding state. Look at brctl show stp br0
