This is the reply from Tony Toole that somehow ended up in the mailbox of the list administrator:
---- Try removing the IP addressess from all your ethernet adaptors that are bridged, and instead alias them to the brX device. I've found that adding IPs to the ethernet ports, that are bound to a bridge to break bridging for some reason. (could be a Linux issue). In any case, give it a shot as it works great for me. Thanks, Tony Toole On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 09:03:19AM -0500, Casey Allen Shobe wrote: > I should also mention that the workstation is configured as 216.27.168.201, > and works perfectly if I bypass the bridge. > > - Casey > > On Sunday 17 February 2002 8:40, Casey Allen Shobe wrote: > > OK...got it set up as follows: > > br0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:F5:04:15:F9 > > inet addr:216.27.168.203 Bcast:216.27.168.255 > > Mask:255.255.255.224 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > > TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > > RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) > > > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:F5:04:15:F8 > > inet addr:216.27.168.210 Bcast:216.27.168.255 > > Mask:255.255.255.224 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > > RX packets:312 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > > TX packets:160 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 > > RX bytes:29312 (28.6 Kb) TX bytes:22326 (21.8 Kb) > > Interrupt:10 Base address:0xd000 > > > > br0 is eth1, eth2, and eth3. I plugged eth1 into my the net, and I can > > ping/ssh it fine. I plug eth2 into a workstation via a crossover cable, > > and I can't ping to or from it. > > > > What am I missing? > > > > Thanks, > > > > - Casey > > > > On Monday 07 January 2002 11:11, Lennert Buytenhek wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > This shouldn't be very hard. First, you should make sure that every > > > network interface shows up in 'ifconfig' (eth0, eth1, ..., eth19). > > > > > > Second, you must make sure you have the bridge-utils package (there are > > > precompiled Red Hat packages, and for other distributions you can > > > download the tarball and compile it yourself). Then, assuming you want > > > all the interfaces to act as a single switch (with a single virtual LAN) > > > > > > # brctl addbr br0 > > > # brctl addif br0 eth0 > > > # brctl addif br0 eth1 > > > # brctl addif br0 eth2 > > > ... > > > # brctl addif br0 eth18 > > > # brctl addif br0 eth19 > > > > > > > > > cheers, > > > Lennert > > > _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge
