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From: David McCullough <david_mccullough@au.securecomputing.com>
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Subject: Re: [Bridge] [uClinux-dev] Is bridgeing possible with kernel 2.6.10
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Jivin Juergen Pfeiffer lays it down ...
> Hi
> 
> I didn't get bridgeing to work with Linux kernel 2.6.10 (coldfire 5485) 
> yet. When i try to configure bridgeing
> with "brctl", everything seems to be ok, but i if i try to ping through 
> my bridge, i see ARP-Request arriving on the other side, but the
> ARP-Responses do not go back through the bridge.
> Now i could read in 
> "http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Ethernet-Bridge-netfilter-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.1"
> that "Use of kernel 2.6 is not yet a good idea".
> So do i have a change to get it working?

One of the guys here has been testing bridging with 2.6.17 from the
uClinux-dist and it is working fine.  Probably can't offer you much more
than that though,

Cheers,
Davidm

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