On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 12:53:33 +0200
Nils Radtke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
>   Hi Stephen,
> 
>  the transition from kernels of the 2.4.x series to 2.6 series ones broke
>  my bridge. And other peoples bridges additionally, as I learned from 
>  various emails I received adressing this problem.

"broke" is not a complete description of the problem.  Did it not boot?
Not forward packets? Crash, please be more precise.  Also what emails
on what list, the official Linux network developers list is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and the bridge mailing list is [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Also, which functionality? Bridging or bridging and filtering (netfilter).


>  I'd like to see clear about the why and where.
>  Could you give me any hints? 
>  The setup that worked previously is a std one. Two ethx ifs below the
>  br0 if.
> 
>  Afterwards, I'll update my HOWTO
>  (http://www.think-future.de/DOCUMENTATION/Ethernet-Bridge-netfilter-HOWTO/)
>

The current site to look for about netfilter and bridging is the 
ebables.sourceforge.net
info.


>  Thanks for your hints,
> 
>     Nils
> 
> BTW: on http://bridge.sourceforge.net/links.html the link to the HOWTO
>  leads to tldp.org basically ok, but the tldp people do not manage the
>  update I sent to them so the tldp version of my HOWTO is horribly
>  outdated. The above link (leading to think-future.de) reflects the
>  actual HOWTO's version. So you might update your link section leading
>  to the actual one.
>

I'll cleanup the site some time soon and get rid of old links thanks.
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