Re: Bridge Freeze

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

Osamu Aoki wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 07:29:47PM -0300, Leonardo Marques wrote:
>  
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > 	I trying to set up a bridge, to work like a hub or switch, for
> > 	my internal network.
> >
> > 	But when im trying initialise, i dont know why, its freezes.
> >
> > 	I tryed to initialise it with:
> >
> > 	/etc/init.d/networking restart
> > 	ifup -a
> >    
>
> In general, I would do 
>        ifdown eth0
>        ifdown eth1
> before editting e/n/interfaces first. 
>  

That's pretty difficult if the network interface is between the 
administrator and the hard drive:-)

So far, apart from firewall rules some years go, I've managed to avoid 
cutting myself off, but I'm aware of the risk.




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John

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