On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 21:44:28 +0530 Pravin Pardeshi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > I want to have bridge for two NICs (eth0 and eth1) with Knoppix 6.2 Live CD > on virtualbox. I tried the following commands; > > # brctl addbr br0 > # brctl sethello 30 > # brctl stp br0 off > > # ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 > # ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0 > # ifconfig eth0 down > # ifconfig eth1 down > > # brctl addif br0 eth0 > # brctl addif br0 eth1 > > After the addition of eth0 and eth1 to the bridge, the ksoftirq gets kicked > off and starts consuming CPU. The connection to network is lost. The CPU > utilization never stabilizes even after waiting for 10-15 minutes. Knoppix > 6.2 has kernel 2.6.32.6 and bridge-utils is the latest version from debian > repositories. > > Firstly, am I missing something? > Secondly, is it possible to have a setup I am attempting with the live cd? > > Thanks, > Pravin You probably created a network loop. And you turned STP off so it can't be detected. -- _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
