Hello everybody ! I'm not deeply involved in network-optimisation, but I'll try to show you what's happening at my office. I've got one big server (dual PIII 1.13GHz, 1Go sdram) with 6 network interfaces (7 with the bridge) : br0 => bridge 0.0.0.0 eth0 => bridge in (outside world) 0.0.0.0 eth1 => bridge out (gigabit switch) 0.0.0.0 eth2 => first network (100Mb switch) 192.168.2.4/24 eth3 => second network (100Mb switch) 192.168.1.4/24 eth4 => second netwotk + nat (100Mb switch) 192.168.1.1/24 eth5 => third network (gigabit switch) [my public IP]
you may have understand that br0/eth0/eth1 are playing the bridge. eth5 is the public interface of my server, connected to the internet eth2 is on a specific network eth3/eth4 are on the same switch/network (at first, I wanted one interface to acces the services of my server, and one interface to be a gateway (NAT) to the internet, but I didn't manage to, so I'll remove one soon) what is happening, is that when I'm on the 192.168.1.0/24 network, using eth4 (or eth3) as a internet gateway, I don't get anymore a 'constant' connection...... I mean that streaming get lost randomly. do you think the explanation would be a kernel with bridging AND iptables firewall AND iptables nat ? do I ask too much to my kernel ? all was working fine when the bridge was on a secondary computer, but this computer was crashing often, due to cheap hardware. I'm using kernel 2.4.18 with iptables 1.2.6a and the last nf-bridge 0.0.6 patch from bridge.sourceforge.net eth0,1 is a dual eepro100+ (intel) eth2,3 is a dual eepro100+ (intel) eth4 is a eepro100+ (intel) eth5 is a broadcom5700 gigabit many thanks to you guys, your piece of software is excellent ! sCALP _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge
