Re: sparc64 bridging
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 03:00:21PM -0700, Johan Brannlund wrote: You may be able to get it to work by following the advice in this thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2004/debian-sparc-200404/msg00077.html Hi, Thanks! I've just compiled it with the patch, and see; plog0:~# brctl addbr br0 plog0:~# brctl show bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces br0 8000. no plog0:~# Thanks for the pointer, it saved me quite some time. gr, -- VIA NET.WORKS Nederland Axel Scheepers System Administrator UNIX phone +31 40 239 33 93 fax +31 40 239 33 11 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp id 21A33FE0 http://www.vianetworks.nl/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sparc64 bridging
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 03:00:21PM -0700, Johan Brannlund wrote: You may be able to get it to work by following the advice in this thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2004/debian-sparc-200404/msg00077.html Hi, Thanks! I've just compiled it with the patch, and see; plog0:~# brctl addbr br0 plog0:~# brctl show bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces br0 8000. no plog0:~# Thanks for the pointer, it saved me quite some time. gr, -- VIA NET.WORKS Nederland Axel Scheepers System Administrator UNIX phone +31 40 239 33 93 fax +31 40 239 33 11 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp id 21A33FE0 http://www.vianetworks.nl/
Re: sparc64 bridging
- Original Message - Have you already tried these: http://www.phunnypharm.org/pub/for/sparc-folks/ Ref: http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2004/debian-sparc-200402/msg00220.html What hardware are you running on that freebsd isn't compatible with? Seeing as how it doesn't, it'd be nice of you to post it to the freebsd list, so others know what's up. Hi Dan, Thanks for the pointers, I've just installed the bridge-utils-64 package and I'm able to get somewhat further. But some funny things are happening; plog0:/home/axel# brctl addbr br0 plog0:/home/axel# brctl addif br0 eth0 bridge br0 doesn't exist! plog0:/home/axel# brctl show bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces plog0:/home/axel# brctl addbr br0 device br0 already exists; can't create bridge with the same name plog0:/home/axel# brctl delbr br0 plog0:/home/axel# Kind of 'it doesn't exist! -It does! it doesn't!' ;-) (I guess this means compiling it myself with -g and do some debugging) The machine in question is a netra x1. It has no floppy/cdrom so I have to netboot it to install, with FreeBSD 5.2.1 I get a 'Fast Data MMU miss' every time the loader tries to reallocate the kernel. I've already posted this to relevant lists. We've got about 6 of these, all with 1gb mem, in our basement doing nothing, I figured they'd do nice as a pop/mailhub cluster (the remaining 5) and for firewalling (this one). I've also tried OpenBSD, which in fact runs pretty fine on them. We do have some enterprise 450 machines also which I can probably get my hands on (4way smp las time I checked :-) OpenBSD doesn't have decent smp support, and my experiences with NetBSD is somewhat dissapointing under heavy loads. So that's why I'm trying debian now. (I really like the way things are handled compared to the other distros available) I don't like keeping a mix of more then 4 operating systems at our site, in fact, I'm trying to bring it all down a bit to ease configuration and migration. We don't have that many people who can manage solaris decently (only 2) so I'd be giving myself some extra work if we keep using that.. ;-) Kind regards, Axel Scheepers
Re: sparc64 bridging
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 02:55, Axel Scheepers wrote: Thanks for the pointers, I've just installed the bridge-utils-64 package and I'm able to get somewhat further. But some funny things are happening; plog0:/home/axel# brctl addbr br0 plog0:/home/axel# brctl addif br0 eth0 bridge br0 doesn't exist! plog0:/home/axel# brctl show bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces plog0:/home/axel# brctl addbr br0 device br0 already exists; can't create bridge with the same name plog0:/home/axel# brctl delbr br0 plog0:/home/axel# Kind of 'it doesn't exist! -It does! it doesn't!' ;-) (I guess this means compiling it myself with -g and do some debugging) The machine in question is a netra x1. It has no floppy/cdrom so I have to netboot it to install, with FreeBSD 5.2.1 I get a 'Fast Data MMU miss' every time the loader tries to reallocate the kernel. I've already posted this to relevant lists. We've got about 6 of these, all with 1gb mem, in our basement doing nothing, I figured they'd do nice as a pop/mailhub cluster (the remaining 5) and for firewalling (this one). I've also tried OpenBSD, which in fact runs pretty fine on them. We do have some enterprise 450 machines also which I can probably get my hands on (4way smp las time I checked :-) OpenBSD doesn't have decent smp support, and my experiences with NetBSD is somewhat dissapointing under heavy loads. So that's why I'm trying debian now. (I really like the way things are handled compared to the other distros available) I don't like keeping a mix of more then 4 operating systems at our site, in fact, I'm trying to bring it all down a bit to ease configuration and migration. We don't have that many people who can manage solaris decently (only 2) so I'd be giving myself some extra work if we keep using that.. ;-) You're in the same situation I am. Most people here CAN manage solaris, but with the ridiculous install time, patching time, and buggy utilities(awk, sed, tar), it's nice to have something that works. I revised my initial reply to the link above, which I found using google. I was originially going to state that I simply don't think linux or *bsd supports bridging on the sparc64 arch yet. I don't really know why, but I think it has more to do with 64 bit vs 32 bit. This is probably what I should revert back to, I just don't think it's working yet. Sun is famous for their screwed up hardware, though they are more famous for their buggy CPUs/Memory, which they claim are transient errors that a reboot will fix. Personally, I've tried it quite few times, and haven't been able to get it to work, but I've only tried on Netra t105s and quad hme cards.
Re: sparc64 bridging
On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 12:17, Axel Scheepers wrote: Hi, I'm not sure if I should post it here, if it's not appropiate please excuse me for doing so. I'm currently looking into alternatives for solaris to put some ultrasparc hardware in use at our isp. We mainly use freebsd, but I'm having major problems running the latest releases on this hardware. Anyway, I just installed debian on a sparc64 machine and upgraded it to testing to be able to run the 2.6.5 kernel. I wanted to use this machine as a bridging firewall for some cobalt machines we run, but I can't create a bridge. I have the bridge module loaded, and 'brctl addbr br0' doesn't give an error nor error exit code. When I run 'brctl show' it doesn't show my newly created bridge, and I can't create any further configs with it or delete it, it just isn't there. I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong here, as far as I can tell the commands I used are correct. Was it a bad idea to upgrade to 2.6.5? (I really like some features of it which imho brings it way closer to a bsd kernel) Since I needed to recompile the kernel anyway it seemed like a good choice to build 2.6.5, I never tried it with a 2.4.24 kernel. To be sure about things I've already tried to - enable ip forwarding - build it into the kernel instead of a module - ifconfig'd ethN promisc up all interfaces but all have no effect. I'm not (yet) subscribed to this list, could you please cc me in a response? Thanks, Kind regards, Axel Scheepers Have you already tried these: http://www.phunnypharm.org/pub/for/sparc-folks/ Ref: http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2004/debian-sparc-200402/msg00220.html What hardware are you running on that freebsd isn't compatible with? Seeing as how it doesn't, it'd be nice of you to post it to the freebsd list, so others know what's up. Dan Vande More
