From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 08:46:39 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger Message-ID: <20101013084639.5712c28c@nehalam> In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Bridge] F13 bridge issues List-Id: Linux Ethernet Bridging List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Mark Liggett Cc: "bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org" On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:27:18 -0400 Mark Liggett 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. --