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...use version 1.0.3 I have the problem that I do not see the brige with the 'brctl show' command if it is not fully set up. It was working with 0.9.6. I tracked the problem down to an 'incompatibility' in bridge/uClibc/kernel. 0.9.6 uses its own if_indextoname function which uses the SIOCGIFNAME ioctl which works with the kernel. Version 1.x uses the libc if_indextoname (here uClibc) which uses the SIOCGIFCONF ioctl and scans the if list to resolv the name for an if_index. The kernel will not send back interfaces which do not have an ip address (or exactly only for protocol family inet or...

I have a domU configured with two virtual ethernet interfaces - one on a private bridge and one to the outside world. If I cat /proc/net/dev (or loop round the interfaces using SIOCGIFNAME) there are loads of them? Should they all be there ? I''m using the same kernel for dom0 & domU. Inter-| Receive | Transmit face |bytes packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes packets errs drop fifo colls carrier co...