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Hey guys!

I'm having a little trouble with a sprc bridge setup. I am running SuSe 7.3 for sparc on a Sun Ultra1 Creator3D. I compiled 2.4.25 kernel with 802.1d Ethernet Bridging support, and installed
bridge-utils 0.9.6. I've read all of the documentation that I could find (Bridging FAQ and Bridging HOWTO). But I still get the following errors:

brctl addbr br0
brctl addif br0 eth0
bridge br0 doesn't exist!

Why not?

brctl addbr br0
device br0 already exists; can't create bridge with the same name

I've found on other mailing-lists that sparc systems require the bridge-utils64 package, but can only find it for Debian.

Any thoughts on what's going on here? If I compiled the utils from source, shouldn't they be the right ones for my system/kernel?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Charlie

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Quoted 7 lines · On Monday 22 March 2004 05:34, D@7@k|N& wrote:

I've found on other mailing-lists that sparc systems require the bridge-utils64 package, but can only find it for Debian.

Any thoughts on what's going on here? If I compiled the utils from source, shouldn't they be the right ones for my system/kernel?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

There used to be a patch on the bridge website to get the userspace tool to work on a Sparc64 but afaik it's no longer there. There should be someone on this list who still has this patch, I've searched my system and it looks like I never got around to save it to a good place.

cheers,
Bart

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Quoted 9 lines · On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 19:36:07 +0200 Bart De Schuymer <[email protected]> wrote:
Quoted 7 lines · On Monday 22 March 2004 05:34, D@7@k|N& wrote:

I've found on other mailing-lists that sparc systems require the bridge-utils64 package, but can only find it for Debian.

Any thoughts on what's going on here? If I compiled the utils from source, shouldn't they be the right ones for my system/kernel?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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There used to be a patch on the bridge website to get the userspace tool to work on a Sparc64 but afaik it's no longer there. There should be someone on this list who still has this patch, I've searched my system and it looks like I never got around to save it to a good place.

cheers,
Bart

I didn't lose the old website, it is archived. I'll dig it out.