brctl 0.9.3 error on ultrasparc/linux 2.4.17

brctl 0.9.3 error on ultrasparc/linux 2.4.17

[Narancs v1]

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Hi Lennert!

We have a big trouble here, we have a so called "firewall" which has 5 eth
if.s and it is a sun ultra 5 ws. 2 ports should be used as an ethernet
bridge for filtering IPX between 2 ethernet segments.

I have read all the docs which came with the bridge-utils package.

On intel we use the same kernel, similar kernel config and it is working
fine.

on sparc we get this error message:

# brctl addbr br0
br_add_bridge: operation not supported

bridge module is loaded

distribution is debian woody/sparc

Thank you for your great help!

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Narancs v1
IT Security Administrator

"Security of information is an illusion.
What is in one's mind gets into the collective consciousness (akasha),
so that can be read with meditation ;-) You don't have to hack.
Just 'remember'! You're the one." (Me)

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Re: brctl 0.9.3 error on ultrasparc/linux 2.4.17

[Lennert Buytenhek]

Hi there,

Bridging not working on ultra is a known problem which I haven't really
bothered to fix.  If you have a spare ultra somewhere you can let me ssh
into I'll have a look..


cheers,
Lennert


On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 02:50:49PM +0100, Narancs v1 wrote:

> Hi Lennert!
> 
> We have a big trouble here, we have a so called "firewall" which has 5 eth
> if.s and it is a sun ultra 5 ws. 2 ports should be used as an ethernet
> bridge for filtering IPX between 2 ethernet segments.
> 
> I have read all the docs which came with the bridge-utils package.
> 
> On intel we use the same kernel, similar kernel config and it is working
> fine.
> 
> on sparc we get this error message:
> 
> # brctl addbr br0
> br_add_bridge: operation not supported
> 
> bridge module is loaded
> 
> distribution is debian woody/sparc
> 
> Thank you for your great help!
>