[Voyage-linux] Building Bridges

[Giorgio Ducci]

Hi ANdrew,

I had the same problem as you. I do not know why but apparently in 
debian/voyage you cannot configure a bridge at the same as interfaces in 
the same script  ::p
What I made it is a separate script the /etc/init   directory with a 
symlink in rc2.s to start at boot after all other scripts. it's a trick not 
very clean, I know but in this way it works fine. I am not an expert so I 
just workaround that. If you have only one bridge in the network it is 
useful to turn off Spanning Tree with ==> brctl stp br0 off.
By the way, could you please explain to me how did you solve the problem of 
FC4 and voyage install? I did not so ....
Cheers
Giorgio

>I am having some trouble building a bridge with voyage-0.2pre1.
>
>Here is my /etc/network/interfaces file:
>
># Used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8). See the interfaces(5) manpage or
># /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples for more information.
>auto lo
>iface lo inet loopback
>
>iface br0 inet static
>      address 192.168.254.20
>      netmask 255.255.255.0
>      broadcast 192.168.254.255
>
>iwconfig wlan0 essid testing mode master
>ifconfig wlan0 0.0.0.0 up
>ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 up
>
>brctl addbr br0
>brctl addif br0 eth0
>brctl addif br0 wlan0
>ifconfig br0 up
>
>
>When I issue a /etc/init.d/networking restart command I get this error:
>
>Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter.
>Enabling packet forwarding...done.
>Reconfiguring network interfaces.../etc/network/interfaces:13: duplicate
>option
>ifdown: couldn't read interfaces file "/etc/network/interfaces"
>/etc/network/interfaces:13: duplicate option
>ifup: couldn't read interfaces file "/etc/network/interfaces"
>done.
>
>Any ideas on how to make my interfaces file work?
>
>
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