Thanks for your info up till now.
I went for the 2.4.18 source and compiled it with the patch, so that
*everything* should be up to date.
All seems to have installed correctly.
But now I have a question about usage. It seems that once I activate my
Bridge, I am unable to receive any traffic on the machine.
So my question is : once the bridge is up, can the machine itself receive
traffic? I thought it could if you assign it an IP address.
Do I need to add some info to the routing table ?
here is the sequence of commands I performed:
(first let me show you my ethernet config):
# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:DA:CF:FF:9F
inet addr:X.Y.Z.83 Bcast:X.Y.Z.95 Mask:255.255.255.240
UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
...
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BA:B5:20:01
inet addr:X.Y.Z.84 Bcast:X.Y.Z.255 Mask:255.255.255.240
UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
...
Now...
# ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0
# ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0
# brctl addbr br0
# brctl addbr br0 eth0
# brctl addbr br0 eth1
# ifconfig br0 X.Y.Z.83
# ifconfig br0 up
(things should be working now, right?)
# host google.com
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
( this was working before addbr )
# ping X.Y.Z.81
64 bytes from X.Y.Z.81: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=1.846 msec
(strange... I can ping my router, and other computers on the network )
# ping 63.211.39.10 (my ISP's nameserver)
connect: Network is unreachable
Please do advise, what do do!
FYI my IPTables config is empty, with the default 3 rules set to ACCEPT
Thanks
Nat
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just install the bridge-utils RPM from the download page.
>
>
> cheers,
> Lennert
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 08:11:41PM -0500, Nathaniel Rahav wrote:
>
> >
> > Dear Bridgers,
> >
> > My apologies if this post sounds totally ignorant...
> > any help is greatly appreciated...
> > please reply direct to me and not the list:
> >
> > I am building a fresh new RH7.2 Linux box to serve as a bridging firewall.
> >
> > I have a 2.4.9 kernel which I recompiled with all my needed netfilter
> > options.
> > However I have no brctl program , though I do see the bridge
> > object files in /lib/modules. also the man page for brctl isnt installed.
> >
> > I downloaded the source tarball and compiled it, but how exactly should I
> > go about installing it in the system ? there is no make install target.
> > Could someonen kindly tell me where the various files should go on my
> > system ? Or should I just copy the brctl exec into my sbin and use it ?
> >
> > Also, should I patch my kernel with only the 2.4.9 patch, or with all the
> > patches ?
> >
> > thanks
> > and sorry for the dumb questions
> >
> > Nat
> >
> >
> >
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