Well, i spoke too soon.
this is weird. after returning from a couple of days of not messing with this thing, it seems as it only worked for a few seconds (long enough for me to start and stop pinging through it). sorry about that. just to refresh, here's my config athlon 750 128 meg ram rh72 2.4.18 brctl from bridge.sf.net (newest) 4x 3x905-tx-m-c i am trying to make 2 bridges, between 2 HP4000m switches (and eventually a cisco 2632 router and a hp4000m). i have the network segmented into 2 vlans, one at 10.1/16, one at 10.2/16. one bridge is between on the 10.1 network, the other is on 10.2 (end goal -- traffic shaping) anyway, the inital problem i was having was due to a bad STP configuration in one of the switches. now the problem i am having is on the 10.2 network. no matter how i bring it into the bridge (with ip, w/o ip, 0.0.0.0 as ip, promisc), no matter which set of nics i plug into, and how i configure the bridge (ip, no ip, 0.0.0.0, stp on and stp off) it ceases to work the second 10.1 comes online. if i bring 10.1 online before 10.2, 10.2 never works. i just waited nearly an hour before plugging 10.1 in, and as soon as it (10.1) got through discovering a few macs 10.2 died. this is really frustrating. can anyone help? what am i missing? i have done some tcpdumps and used a commerical windows-based sniffer to try to come up with something. neither show anything out of the ordinary. the "brctl showstp" commands show the correct root and bridge id's for each bridge, and that the ports are forwarding. there are no iptables rules in place either. i have tried every configuration i know and i am running out of ideas. maybe one of you out there can help me. thanks so much. matt > Hi, > > OK, thanks for letting me know you figured it out (a lot of people > have the tendency of disappearing when they find out what they > did wrong, which leaves me with a lot of open bug reports). > > Well.. if you're ever in the Netherlands you can buy me a beer ;) > > > cheers, > Lennert > > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 04:28:46AM +0000, Matt Critcher wrote: > > > well, disreguard my last post. > > > > i finally figured it out. > > > > Lennert, you were right. Virtual beer for you. one switch out of the 70 or so > > we have got stp enabled on it during the recent upgrades. i resolved that > > problem and bam, now it all works. it only took a few hours to find. > > > > many many many thanks for your help and advice. > > > > > > if i can be of help to anyone here, please let me know. > > > > thanks! > > > > matt > > > _______________________________________________ > Bridge mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge > ****************** If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed ... oh, wait a minute -- he already does. ****************** --------------------------------------------- Visit http://www.neark.org _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge
