by Pete » Wed, 23 Feb 2005 01:16:36
i tried to set up a bridge with my fedora core 3, kernel
2.6.10-1.741_FC3. I entered following commands:
# ifconfig eth0 promisc up
# ifconfig eth1 promisc up
# brctl addbr br0
# brctl addif br0 eth0
# brctl addif br0 eth1
# ifconfig br0 up
It was possible to create the bridge, but there is a problem: The
bridge doesn't forward traffic until i assign an IP address to the
interface br0. But that's not what i want.
Any ideas?
Greetings
Peter
1. Bridging and giving the bridge an IP address
I'm attempting to use the kernel bridging code to set up a network
on the following skeleton:
+-----+ 100mbit +-----------+ 10mbit +----+
| *.2 |====x======| LINUX *.4 |========| |
+-----+ crossover +-----------+ | 10 |
|mbit|
+-----+ |hub |
| *.1 |========| |
+-----+ +----+
LINUX is kernel 2.0.30 running with two NICs, with the *.4 IP address
at eth0 on the hub side of things. The goal is 100mbit between *.2
and LINUX, while allowing 10mbit communications between everyone else.
On LINUX, I can "ifconfig eth1 up", and run "brcfg -enable", and
things mostly work. Unfortunately, "ping *.255" from the *.2 box
gives responses from all boxes on the hub excepting *.4.
Using tcpdump, I find that eth1 is seeing packets like "arp who-has
*.4 (Broadcast) tell *.2", and the same packets are seen on eth0.
This indicates to me that LINUX is bridging the broadcast packets,
before the networking code gets a chance to reponse to them.
Any ideas on this? I suspect that there's someplace in the bridging
code where it's not accounting for local interfaces, only those on
the connected networks. [I realize that bridges aren't "supposed"
to have IP addresses at all, but I'll just live with 10mbit rather
than have one box dedicated to bridging.] "ifconfig eth1 *.6"
allowed *.2 to ping *.6, but not *.4.
Unfortunately, there are some internal reasons why *.2 has to see
LINUX as *.4, and not *.6. I need broadcast across the bridge, so
I can't solve this by making LINUX a router.
One solution that's come to mind would be to change *.2 and *.6 to
put them in a different subnet, and have LINUX route the subnets
for "normal" packets and bridge the subnets for broadcast packets.
This seems a bit extreme, though.
Thanks,
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