Hi Ole, Maybe those mails from archives would answer your questions. As long as I know this is still present in kernel:
http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-embedded/2004-October/015617.html http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-embedded/2004-October/015620.html So, you have to change set_multicast_list to support the promiscous mode needed by your bridge. Best regards, Alex. > -----Original Message----- > From: Ole Andreas Torvmark [SMTP:ole.torvmark at radionor.no] > Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 11:28 AM > To: linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org > Subject: Ethernet bridging on MPC8248 > > Hi ! > > I've a custom board with a MPC8248 with two LXT972 10/100MBit ethernet > phys. > > The board is running 2.6.9-rc1, and I'm using the FCC ENET Version 0.3 > driver with some modifications. > > My question is : > > I've tried to get ethernet briding between the two ethernet ports to work. > > I've set up the following : > > ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 > ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0 > brctl addbr br0 > brctl addif br0 eth0 > brctl addif br0 eth1 > ifconfig br0 192.168.0.222 netmask 255.255.255.0 > > If I connect a machine to port 0 (eth0) then I can ping the bridge from > that machine, > If I connect a machine to port 1 (eth1) I cannot ping the bridge. > If I connect machines to both ports, I cannot ping one machine from the > other, the only thing i can successfully ping is from port 0 to bridge > and from bridge to port 0 > > Is this a known problem with the FCC ENET driver or does it support > bridging fully ? > > best regards > > Ole Andreas Torvmark > R & D Engineer > Radionor Communications AS > > _______________________________________________ > Linuxppc-embedded mailing list > Linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org > https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded
