Are there any special steps that need to be done when setting up bridging on redhat? I followed the instructions of the HOWTO
ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0 brctl addbr br0 brctl addif br0 eth0 brctl addif br0 eth1 ifconfig br0 // I don't want to give it an IP address and initially everything worked fine. I then restarted the machine and re-entered the commands but this time nothing went over the bridge. You could tcpdump eth[01] and see traffic on them, it just wasn't getting passed across. After swearing and a couple of reboots it suddenly started working again depite the fact that I'd done nothing different. It worked perfectly in the test environment for half a day and so I tried deploying it where everything stopped once more. I moved back to the test environment and it didn't work there either. More swearing occurred so I rebooted to the linux kernel with normal (not net filtering) bridging and everything worked immediately. Wondering if it was some module on top of the bridging module that wasn't being loaded automatically I rebooted back to the netfiltering kernel and found to my surprise that bridging was working again and has continued to be fine for the last few hours. As you can imagine I'm now really confused by all this, I'm new to bridging so I'm perfectly willing to accept that I'm being a complete muppet. I'm running the 2.4 kernel on Redhat 7.2, I installed the precompiled rpm of the latest kernel as supplied at http://bridge.sourceforge.net/devel/bridge-nf/kernel-2.4.9-13brnf0.0.4.i686.rpm . Forwarding is switched on and I've currently got the iptables firewall completely open, nothing at all is denied/stopped. If anyone has any ideas please let me know. Thanks a lot. Stu. _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge
