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Hello, I manage a number of servers all running 2.4 (same problem exists with 2.6). My problem is that since a few bridge versions ago, I've had to modify net/bridge/br_fdb.c in the br_fdb_insert() function -- to get rid of the checks that produce this error: Jan 16 10:35:31 host15 kernel: tap_0: received packet with own address as source address Jan 16 10:35:33 host15 kernel: tap_0: received packet with own address as source address My specific setup is: br0 assigned an IP, with eth0 added to the bridge with no IP. I create tap devices, assign them no IP address but a unique MAC. On...

...hamed to say, that I tried this, too. These are the commands that I also tried: ifconfig tap0 hw ether fe:fd:00:00:00:00 # /dev/tap0 being the device file I had created w/ mknod ifconfig /dev/tap0 hw ether fe:fd:00:00:00:00 ifconfig /dev/tap0 hw eth0 fe:fd:00:00:00:00 ifconfig tap_0 hw ether fe:fd:00:00:00:00 , all of which resulted in the message: SIOCHIFHWADDR: No such device , except #3, which resulted in the output of the usage of ifconfig. I'd really apreciate if anyone could tell me what the actual command should look like. Thanks, Gabe -------------- ne...