On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 08:37:05PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote: > I'm testing on a 6172. But 6172 and 6176 are both in the same family > 6352, and share the same driver.
Hmm, can't be that then. > So you initially have lan1 in an bridge. I don't. Okay, I've disabled br0 in the debian network/interfaces and rebooted. This means eth0 (connected to the bridge) is initially down, along with all the lan interfaces. root@clearfog:~# brctl show br0 bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces br0 can't get info No such device root@clearfog:~# ip link set eth0 up root@clearfog:~# ip link set lan5 up root@clearfog:~# ip addr add 192.168.254.3/24 dev lan5 root@clearfog:~# ping 192.168.254.254 PING 192.168.254.254 (192.168.254.254) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.254.254: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.15 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.254.254: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.686 ms ^C --- 192.168.254.254 ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1001ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.686/0.921/1.157/0.237 ms root@clearfog:~# ip addr del 192.168.254.3/24 dev lan5 root@clearfog:~# brctl addbr br0 root@clearfog:~# brctl addif br0 lan5 root@clearfog:~# ip link set br0 up root@clearfog:~# ip addr add 192.168.254.3/24 dev br0 root@clearfog:~# ping 192.168.254.254 PING 192.168.254.254 (192.168.254.254) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.254.254: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.18 ms ^C --- 192.168.254.254 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.189/1.189/1.189/0.000 ms -- RMK's Patch system: http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/ FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 9.6Mbps down 400kbps up according to speedtest.net.