RE: bridging ethernet problem
Just to save Ben the trouble, one thing I can tell is that you can't use
bridge-utils, you must use bridge-utils64 from:
http://www.phunnypharm.org/pub/for/sparc-folks/
How does it work with that?
<> Jim
> sorry guys for my english, I need help for configuring ethernet bridging
> into debian sparc.
> I have installed Debian GNU/Linux (woody) into SUN Netra X1, I compiled
> 2.4.25 kernel with 802.1d Ethernet Bridging support, I have installed
> bridge-utils 0.9.5-2, I have read many documentations (Bridging FAQ and
> Bridging HOWTO).
>
>
> I create the virtual interface br0
> brctl addbr br0
> When I add the ethernet interfaces I recive this message:
> brctl addif br0 eth0
> bridge br0 doesn't exist!
> Why not?
>
> brctl addbr br0
> device br0 already exists; can't create bridge with the same name
>
> Note that the bridge module is loaded (viewable with lsmod)
>
> bridge:~# lsmod
> Module Size Used by Not tainted
> bridge 19560 1
> tulip 45160 2
>
> brctl show :
> bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces
> bridge:~# cat /proc/net/dev
> Inter-| Receive |
> Transmit
> face |bytes packets errs drop fifo frame compressed
> multicast|bytes packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
> lo: 465 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
> 465 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
> eth0: 139630 1906 0 0 0 0 0 0
> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> eth1: 139895 1905 0 0 0 0 0 0
> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> br0: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>
>
>
>
> This is my /etc/network/interface
> auto lo eth0 eth1 br0
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> iface eth0 inet static
> address 0.0.0.0
> netmask 0.0.0.0
> iface eth1 inet static
> address 0.0.0.0
> netmask 0.0.0.0
> iface br0 inet static
> address 0.0.0.0
> netmask 0.0.0.0
> bridge_ports eth0 eth1
> bridge_bridgeprio 32767
> bridge_portprio eth1 129
> bridge_fd 5
>
> The outpu of ifconfig:
>
> br0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:BA:05:C8:0F
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:1852 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:135696 (132.5 KiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> Interrupt:64 Base address:0x2000
>
> eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:BA:05:C8:0E
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:1875 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:137612 (134.3 KiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> Interrupt:128
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