I didn't up the eth{0,1} interfaces - I will give this a go this evening.
Thanks for the quick reply,
Gareth
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lennert Buytenhek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 10 January 2002 10:17
> To: John, Gareth
> Cc: Bridge (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [Bridge] Bridge debugging
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 10:01:48AM -0000, John, Gareth wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> Hi,
>
>
> > All seemed to go well (except for a hunk failure with the last
> > patch, which I assume is because some of these fixes made
> it into the 2.4.17
> > kernel...).
>
> It's because one of the additional fixes exports a symbol that is also
> exported by the bridge-nf patch. It's safe to ignore that hunk.
>
>
> > However, when I configured my bridge:
> >
> > brctl addbr br0
> > brctl addif eth0
> > brctl addif eth1
> >
> > and used the 'ip' tool to configure ip addresses and
> activate the br0
> > interface, I was unable to ping any other ip addresses on
> my LAN, or my ADSL
> > router.
>
> Did you up the br0 device?
>
> # ip link set br0 up
>
>
> Did you wait 30 seconds?
>
> # sleep 30
>
>
> Did you up the eth0, eth1 interfaces as well?
>
> # ip link set eth0 up
> # ip link set eth1 up
>
>
> > What I'd like to know is, does the 'ip' configuration do anything
> > differently to ifconfig that would cause my bridge not to
> work correctly,
> > and if this isn't the case, is it possible to enable any
> debug options to
> > get some output that may be useful for debugging my bridge?
>
> Try the 'show' and 'showstp' options.
>
> # brctl show
> # brctl showstp br0
>
> If it lists port state as 'disabled', either the physical
> device or the
> bridge device isn't up. If it lists 'listening' or
> 'learning', you have
> to wait. If it lists 'forwarding', it should be working. If it lists
> 'blocking', you have created a loop in your network and the
> bridge shut
> down one or more ports not to create a forwarding loop.
>
>
> cheers,
> Lennert
>
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