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Hello. I'm fairly (very) new to the kernel and networking in general, but I thought I'd give the following a shot here... I was reading thought the STP chapter in Understanding Linux Network Internals and testing out the bridging configuration with brctl, and was surprised to find that setportprio would only have any effect for values 0 to 63 (on 2.6.12.3 and using bridge-utils 0.9.6). It seems the port priority has been handled as 6 bits since this: http://lists.osdl.org/mailman/htdig/bridge/2004-April/000274.html On page 322 of the book, it describes it as originally 8 bits, then chan...

Hey all I''m new to Linux and Virtualizing. I''m trying to dedicate my nic''s to each virtual server. For instance, virt server A would use nic1 and virt server B would use nic2 and so on. I''ve been reading some stuff for this list and to tell you the truth I''m a bit overwhelmed. We are going to run SLES10.1 and Xen. I would appreciate any assistance.

hi everyone, so,first it seemed a trivial question to me, but since I could not find anybody being neither able to answer this question nor giving a short config example. after a few sleepless nights and exhausting all the reading and research. here I am sharing my problem with all of you, in the hope of some possible solution/sugestion. or is it that this is impossible?? below my