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From: Simon Barber <simon@superduper.net>
To: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Bridge] help needed regarding configuration for bridging
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:29:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C8E6D82.6020509@superduper.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100913075419.4d70f1c8@nehalam>

I think you're looking for more vlan capability than the current Linux 
bridging code has. I posted a patch a few years back to add vlan aware 
bridging to the kernel - it would be great if someone updated it to the 
current kernel. Here's a reference:

https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/bridge/2006-September/005046.html

Simon


On 09/13/2010 07:54 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:11:21 +0530
> debasis das<fordebasis@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>          I have a Linux box with 3 interfaces eth0,eth1 and eth2.
>>          Could anyone please let me know whether the following configuration
>> would be valid :
>>
>> *#brctl addbr br1
>> #brctl addif br1 eth1
>> #ifconfig br1 up
>> # brctl show
>> bridge name     bridge id               STP enabled     interfaces
>> br1             8000.001000000007       no              eth1
>>
>>
>> # brctl addbr br0
>> # brctl addif br0 eth0
>> # ifconfig br0 up
>> # vconfig add br0 5
>> # brctl addif br1 br0.5
>
> A bridge can not be added to a bridge.
>

      reply	other threads:[~2010-09-13 18:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-13  9:41 [Bridge] help needed regarding configuration for bridging debasis das
2010-09-13 14:54 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-09-13 18:29   ` Simon Barber [this message]

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