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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [Bridge] how to install
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To: Clark Edwards <clarkeboss@hotmail.com>
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> Hi Im new to Linux and I found out about http://bridge.sf.net from a magazine that I subscribe to. It explains everything about setting it up bridges, but not how to install the package from the site. I ran ./configure, which went fine, and I tried to run ./install-sh, but it keeps asking for a destination. Currently Im running FC3 and I know the kernel is 2.6 or highter on FC3 so shouldn't the patch be added by default? Please help.
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> Thanks,
> Clark 

In almost all new distro's the bridging is already compiled in the 
kernel and the utilities are available in the package management system 
as bridge-utils.  This is true for Redhat based distro's like Fedora as 
well as SuSe, Debian and Gentoo. So you should be able to setup
a bridge with the brctl command without any additional special effort.

Also, the 2.6 distributions like Fedora have the Ethernet Bridge
tables (ebtables) for firewall support as well.