[Voyage-linux] Building Bridges

[Punky Tse]

I installed bridge-utils in my testing debian under UML, you will find
some documents in
/usr/share/doc/bridge-utils, and
/usr/share/doc/ifupdown

... if you want to follow the debian way...

Punky


On 8/26/05, Giorgio Ducci <giorgioducci at giorgioducci.com> wrote:
> 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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