[Bridge] Bridging

Santiago Garcia Mantinan bridge at manty.net
Tue Jun 1 01:43:43 PDT 2004


Just a quick note for those reading this on the list, version 1.X up to, and
including, 1.0.3 doesn't work on 2.4 kernels, Stephen is looking at that and
there should be a new version :-)

> when i type ./configure then make then make install to bridge-utils-1.0.3,
> but u come out with error said lsysfs cannot found?

Yes, by default new versions of the tools require libsysfs, you'll have to
specify a parameter to configure to build without libsysfs.

> But when i install bridge-utils-0.9.6, it succeedful install but nothing
> come out, i type lsmod, i did not see any brctl

brctl is a tool to control the bridge, not a kernel module, thus it cannot
be seen on lsmod, but if it installed well you can surelly run brctl and get
its help or do a man brctl, ...

BTW: there are bridge-utils packages on most distros out there, maybe you
should install the binary package that comes with your distribution.

Regards...
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