Hello, You are probably not aware that it takes 30 seconds (or so) before the bridge starts working. That's all I can think of anyway.
cheers, Bart ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart Cairns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 6:56 PM Subject: [Bridge] Bridging voodoo > 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 > _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge
