I installed bridge-utils in my testing debian under UML, you will find some documents in /usr/share/doc/bridge-utils, and /usr/share/doc/ifupdown
... if you want to follow the debian way... Punky On 8/26/05, Giorgio Ducci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi ANdrew, > > I had the same problem as you. I do not know why but apparently in > debian/voyage you cannot configure a bridge at the same as interfaces in > the same script ::p > What I made it is a separate script the /etc/init directory with a > symlink in rc2.s to start at boot after all other scripts. it's a trick not > very clean, I know but in this way it works fine. I am not an expert so I > just workaround that. If you have only one bridge in the network it is > useful to turn off Spanning Tree with ==> brctl stp br0 off. > By the way, could you please explain to me how did you solve the problem of > FC4 and voyage install? I did not so .... > Cheers > Giorgio > > >I am having some trouble building a bridge with voyage-0.2pre1. > > > >Here is my /etc/network/interfaces file: > > > ># Used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8). See the interfaces(5) manpage or > ># /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples for more information. > >auto lo > >iface lo inet loopback > > > >iface br0 inet static > > address 192.168.254.20 > > netmask 255.255.255.0 > > broadcast 192.168.254.255 > > > >iwconfig wlan0 essid testing mode master > >ifconfig wlan0 0.0.0.0 up > >ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 up > > > >brctl addbr br0 > >brctl addif br0 eth0 > >brctl addif br0 wlan0 > >ifconfig br0 up > > > > > >When I issue a /etc/init.d/networking restart command I get this error: > > > >Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter. > >Enabling packet forwarding...done. > >Reconfiguring network interfaces.../etc/network/interfaces:13: duplicate > >option > >ifdown: couldn't read interfaces file "/etc/network/interfaces" > >/etc/network/interfaces:13: duplicate option > >ifup: couldn't read interfaces file "/etc/network/interfaces" > >done. > > > >Any ideas on how to make my interfaces file work? > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Voyage-linux mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux > > > > _______________________________________________ > Voyage-linux mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux > -- -- Regards, Punky P U N K N ! X . c o m Technology + Lifestyle (http://www.punknix.com) Voyage Linux (http://www.voyage.hk/software/voyage.html) _______________________________________________ Voyage-linux mailing list [email protected] http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux
