Re: brctl 0.9.3 error on ultrasparc/linux 2.4.17

Lennert Buytenhek (buytenh@gnu.org)
Fri, 28 Dec 2001 02:24:22 -0500


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!
>
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