[Bridge] Bridging with ethertap causing kernel oops

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 09:12:35AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>Good, it is hard to get accurate data with vendor patched kernels.

Something was whacked with my 2.4.21 install and it wouldn't talk on the
network.  I was going to be using this for a project, but have decided
to use a routed network because of the problems with bridging.  I'll see
about getting something set up to test with again in the next couple of
days.

>Are you running with STP turned on?

Yes.  I won't have any loops in the network, I guess I could shut it off
if you thought it would help.

>Also, could you try with 2.6.0-test3 to see if it is something that
>has already been covered by the 2.6 bug fixing?

Ok, I can try that as well.

Thanks,
Sean
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