As far as I can tell, the setup you describe should work as expected. I am not 
sure what causes the problem you describe. The first thing I would check is if 
the bridge interfaces (br0) have the same MAC address, they should not.

Jonathan

On 30/06/10 02:37 AM, Ng Ming Ann wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I’m currently working on a Ethernet bridge for a system. I have a machine(not 
> PC, but an embedded system) which has two Ethernet ports, I wanted to 
> configure it into a Ethernet bridge which connect other PC.
>
> I have tested on configuring it into a bridge where the two PC able to ping 
> each other and send files. I’m wondering that whether I can involve the 
> embedded Linux system in the network, where the two PC able to detect the 
> Linux OS( embedded system) and able to send files and communicate with it as 
> the figure below:
>
> Rounded Rectangle: Embedded System ( Bridge)
>
>
>       
>       
>       
>       
>       
>       
>       
>
>       
>
> PC1
>
>       
>       
>
> PC2
>
>
>
>       
>       
>
> PC1
>
>       
>       
>
> PC2
>
>
> I have try to add an IP to the bridge (virtual port) and the PCs are able to 
> Ping the bridge’s IP.
>
> Then I’d tried to configure the network to be like below:
>
> Rounded Rectangle: Embedded System ( Bridge2)Rounded Rectangle: Embedded 
> System ( Bridge1)
>
> PC1 and PC2 can ping each other can communicate well. I have added IP to both 
> bridge, but the result is that, PC1 only able to ping bridge1’s IP and not 
> bridge2’s IP. PC2 as well, is only able to ping bridge2’s IP and not able to 
> ping bridge1’s IP.
>
> Do you have any suggestion for me to configure the bridge so that both bridge 
> can be detected by each of the PC that connected to them?
>
> Thank you very much in advance.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ming Ann
>
>
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