Re: RE: bridging ethernet problem

Hey guys,

I'm having the exact same problem as Andrea posted about.  The only 
thing is that I'm using SuSe instead of Debian on sparc.  To be 
completely honest, I think I am a little intimidated by debian, even 
though I have used several *nix variants for quite some time.  Anyhow, I 
wouldn't suppose that anyone would know how I could convert the debian 
package to something usable by SuSe?  I was able to extract the binary, 
but it can't find the libraries it needs (I suppose because they are 
different ones that wouldn't be on a SuSe system???). 

Also, I believe my system is running in 32-bit mode (Ultra1 Creator3d).  
But it seems that there are 64-bit packages on the system.  If I 
compiled this from source wouldn't it make the right version?


Thanks for any help.

Charlie

RE: bridging ethernet problem

[Small, Jim]

Just to save Ben the trouble, one thing I can tell is that you can't use
bridge-utils, you must use bridge-utils64 from:
http://www.phunnypharm.org/pub/for/sparc-folks/

How does it work with that?

<> Jim

> sorry guys for my english, I need help for configuring ethernet bridging
> into debian sparc.
> I have installed Debian GNU/Linux (woody) into SUN Netra X1, I compiled
> 2.4.25 kernel with 802.1d Ethernet Bridging support, I have installed
> bridge-utils 0.9.5-2, I have read many documentations (Bridging FAQ and
> Bridging HOWTO).
> 
> 
> I create the virtual interface br0
> brctl addbr br0
> When I add the ethernet interfaces I recive this message:
> 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
> 
> Note that the bridge module is loaded (viewable with lsmod)
> 
> bridge:~# lsmod
> Module  Size  Used byNot tainted
> bridge 19560   1
> tulip  45160   2
> 
> brctl show :
> bridge name bridge id   STP enabled interfaces
> bridge:~# cat /proc/net/dev
> Inter-|   Receive|
> Transmit
>  face |bytespackets errs drop fifo frame compressed
> multicast|bytespackets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
> lo: 465   5000 0  0 0
> 465   5000 0   0  0
>   eth0:  1396301906000 0  0 0
> 0   0000 0   0  0
>   eth1:  1398951905000 0  0 0
> 0   0000 0   0  0
>br0:   0   0000 0  0 0
> 0   0000 0   0  0
> 
> 
> 
> 
> This is my /etc/network/interface
> auto lo eth0 eth1 br0
> iface lo inet loopback
> 
> iface eth0 inet static
> address 0.0.0.0
> netmask 0.0.0.0
> iface eth1 inet static
> address 0.0.0.0
> netmask 0.0.0.0
> iface br0 inet static
> address 0.0.0.0
> netmask 0.0.0.0
> bridge_ports eth0 eth1
> bridge_bridgeprio 32767
> bridge_portprio eth1 129
> bridge_fd 5
> 
> The outpu of ifconfig:
> 
> br0   Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
>   UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>   RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>   TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>   collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>   RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> 
> eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:03:BA:05:C8:0F
>   UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>   RX packets:1852 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>   TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>   collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>   RX bytes:135696 (132.5 KiB)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>   Interrupt:64 Base address:0x2000
> 
> eth1  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:03:BA:05:C8:0E
>   UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>   RX packets:1875 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>   TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>   collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>   RX bytes:137612 (134.3 KiB)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>   Interrupt:128