From: ggb112 <gerard.borg@anu.edu.au>
To: bridge@lists.osdl.org
Subject: [Bridge] Bridge utilities compatible driver
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 13:22:18 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41917B5A.6020501@anu.edu.au> (raw)
Hi guys
I am writing a serial network driver. My aim is to bridge two ethernets
across a serial bridge.
Unfortunately the channel is noisy and slip and ppp are too unreliable.
The driver appears to work by itself and allows two computers to ping
each other across a
null modem cable.
The network driver code permits Linux OS ARPing support for ethernet and
MAC addresses
are manually assigned by insmod.
The driver is based on mkiss.c: the packet radio driver for serial ttys
except that I have eliminated
ax25 specific code, interfaced to IP directly and added some ethernet
support.
Now the problem...
The network driver cannot be bridged to an ethernet card using the
bridge-utilities layer 2
bridge tools.
Note that I have successfully bridged between the ethernet card and
other ethernet like hardware such as
cisco pci340 WiFi by using these tools.
I am using bridge-utilities-0.9.6-1 on linux 2.4.18-14 and linux 2.20-8.
Any ideas about what I should include as software support in the driver
code that will make bridge-utilities
happy?
What does bridge-utilities expect to have available to do its job?
Cheers
Gerard Borg
Australian National Univesrity
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2004-11-10 2:22 ggb112 [this message]
2004-11-10 17:15 ` [Bridge] Bridge utilities compatible driver Stephen Hemminger
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