Re: [Bridge] F13 bridge issues

[Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:27:18 -0400
Mark Liggett <mliggett@btisystems.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm using Ethernet bridging on an up-to-date F13 system.  I've created a bridge adapter br0 and added eth2 and eth3 to it.  Everything works as expected for a short time before the 2 Ethernet cards used in the bridge start reporting millions of errors.  I confirmed this is the case on 2 separate systems (although both systems use Intel NICs).  To try to resolve this I've:
> 
> - Compiled and installed the latest Intel igb driver 2.3.4
> - Installed the latest Fedora kernel 2.6.34.7-56
> - Uninstalled the standard bridge-utils 1.2-9, before compiling and installing version 1.4
> 
> I've pastebin'd the system config here:  http://pastebin.ca/1960777
> 
> You can see the errors listed on eth2 and eth3.  I've tried both setting the bridge up using /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts as well as manually (using brctl and ifconfig).
> 
> My bridge/Ethernet interface configs are listed here: http://pastebin.ca/1960790
> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark

You might also be creating a packet loop?
Turn on spanning tree and find out.

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