Hi, Please bare with me if I did something really silly. I followed the steps from bridge.sf.org to setup a Gentoo box as a bridge. There is no error message along the way and dmesg doesn't show any error either. I have two NIC on the box: eth0 and eth1(at least one of them is realtek TL8139). I added both of them into br0. eth0 is connected to a router, eth1 is connect to my desktop. The LED light on the eth0 card is on. But the one to the desktop is off. If I connect router to eth1 and desktop to eth0, then eth1 LED is on and eth0 is off. My understanding is this would work like a hub or switch so when the desktop is connected, the whole thing would just work as if the bridge doesn't exist. I have been playing with this for a whole day. Any suggestion / idea is appreciated. Thanks, Kent --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/bridge/attachments/20040905/68f1c247/attachment.htm
On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 18:34 -0700, dark sephiroth wrote:> The LED light on the eth0 card is on. But the one to the desktop is > off. If I connect router to eth1 and desktop to eth0, then eth1 LED > is on and eth0 is off. > > My understanding is this would work like a hub or switch so when the > desktop is connected, the whole thing would just work as if the bridge > doesn't exist.Almost like a switch; you still need crossover cable, though, if you're directly connecting two systems together. Are you using crossover cable to connect the 'server' and the 'workstation' ? You aren't getting a physical connection between the server and workstation, that's the issue, not bridging. -- Rob | If not safe, Jabber: athlonrob at axpr.net | one can never be free.