brctl addbr br0
strace brctl addif br0 eth0
and look for what ioctl fails... Post that output and I might be able to point you to the solution...
-- Santiago A. Leon Power Linux Development IBM Linux Technology Center
Small, Jim wrote:
I was never able to get bridging working on the UltraSPARC architecture.From what I have gathered, there is some kind of issue between the 32bituserland (brctl) and 64bit kernel. If you use Debian, you can get a 64bit version of brctl, but even with that I could never get it to work. I could never find anyone who has gotten it to work on the UltraSPARC/Sparc64 architecture.
If you're a kernel hacker, you might be able to get some help debugging the problems if you can suggest new code. Otherwise you'll have to use an x86 based platform (there bridging works beautifully).
Perhaps with time this will bill sorted out in the 2.6 kernel???
<> Jim
-----Original Message----- I'm having a little trouble with a sprc bridge setup. I am running SuSe 7.3 for sparc on a Sun Ultra1 Creator3D. I compiled 2.4.25 kernel with 802.1d Ethernet Bridging support, and installed bridge-utils 0.9.6. I've read all of the documentation that I could find (Bridging FAQ and Bridging HOWTO). But I still get the following errors:
brctl addbr br0 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
I've found on other mailing-lists that sparc systems require the bridge- utils64 package, but can only find it for Debian.
Any thoughts on what's going on here? If I compiled the utils from source, shouldn't they be the right ones for my system/kernel?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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