[Bridge] how to silence the "br0: port X(ethX) doing something" messages?

Stephen Hemminger shemminger at osdl.org
Tue Aug 9 16:00:47 PDT 2005


On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 00:57:14 +0300 (EEST)
Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk at iki.fi> wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 09:33:06 +0300 (EEST)
> > Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk at iki.fi> wrote:
> >
> >> Greetings,
> >>
> >> I'm just wondering how one can make the bridging tools stop
> >> spamming the virtual consoles? I would rather have all those
> >> "entering forwarding state", "entering learning state" and
> >> "entering disabled state" messages go to a log than have them
> >> plastered all over whichever console I happened to be logged into
> >> to work.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >
> > Assuming you are running relatively recent kernel, the messages
> > show up at loglevel 6 (informational).
> 
> Noted.
> 
> Linux omena 2.6.11-imac #2 Thu Jun 23 11:44:22 EEST 2005 ppc GNU/Linux
> 
> ...and other similar 2.6 kernels also on my i386 and hppa hosts.
> 
> 
> > You need to change the console log level and possibly change
> > syslog.conf.
> 
> > To change console log level, either boot without "debug" on the
> > command line, preferably with "quiet" on the command line.
> 
> Sorry, to which kernel option are you refering, exactly?
> 
> My bootloader options are already rather spartan as it is; no debug
> there:
> 
> root=/dev/hda1 ro elevator=cfq
> 

cat /proc/cmdline

You could also try:
	echo 5 >/proc/sysrq-trigger




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