On Sunday 17 February 2002 14:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The configuration looks Ok, except for the IP address.  According to your
> last email, both eth0 and br0 (with eth0 not beeing part of br0), having an
> IP from the same subnet.  You may get yourself into a picle doing that, so
> you may need to chage it to be part of a different subnet.

Well, I need to use this box as a switch, plugged into my router.  That was 
the intention anyways...Basically, I've got a 32 IP routed block.  The router 
gets 216.27.168.193, and is the gateway.  I don't have enough switch hardware 
to actually use all 32 IPs, and I thought that bridging would be a great 
alternative, as I have a bunch of 4-port cards...

> Another thing you can try and do is add eth0 as part of the bridge with the
> rest of the adaptors, so your system only has one IP address. (which is on
> br0).  Don't forget to give your workstation an arp flush once you enable
> the bridge, as there is a good chance the MAC will switch on you. (simple
> arp -ad under WinXX should do the trick).

Well, I don't have any way into the box other than SSH (it has nothing but a 
USB port and one PCI slot that the NIC is using)...so I wrote the following 
script:

#!/bin/sh
ifconfig eth0 down
brctl addbr br0
brctl addif br0 eth0
brctl addif br0 eth1
brctl addif br0 eth2
brctl addif br0 eth3
ifconfig br0 216.27.168.203 netmask 255.255.255.224

But I couldn't access the box after that...had to reboot it.

-- 
Casey Allen Shobe
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