[Bridge] Failure to reacquire Network Connection.

[Shaf Ali]

Hi,   I successfully bridged two eepro pro NIC's on my Redhat 7.2(2.4.16) box. (Compiled into the kernel CONFIG_BRIDGE=y). As a test I physically unplugged one of the CAT5's whilst ftping a file to box....   bridge messages in /var/log/messages indicated this break and subsequent reacqusition when the CAT5 was plugged back in...   Other machines on the network where able to connect to the box after this chain of events HOWEVER the remote host doing the initial transfer failed to be able to comunicate to the box via telnet/ftp (since these protocol connections where active during the removal of the NIC). Maybe a sticky socket ?   The only way to connect to the bridged box from the remote host was to restart it's NIC ! Has anyone expirenced these problems...   The whole idea for trying to bridge the two eepro's was to provide greater throughput and Fault Tolerance.... Should I try something else ?   Many thanks in advance for any help you may be able to provide.   Best regards. Shaf   ------------ Shaf Ali [ContentFusion.com] [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://mail.shaf.net/~shaf/