[Bridge] Unable to learn macs on bridge ports

Stephen Hemminger shemminger at osdl.org
Fri Dec 9 09:09:50 PST 2005


On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 11:47:59 +0530
kanhu <kanhu at innomedia.soft.net> wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> I am using bridge-utils with uClinux having kernel-2.4.19.
> All the commands with brctl is working fine except the showmacs.
> when i execute the command
> 
> />brctl showmacs test
> 
> bridge name     bridge id               STP enabled     interfaces
> 
> It does not show any learned mac, So the bride(test) is not functioning 
> properly for unicast packets.
> Bridging option is already enabled in kernel.
> 
> Any help to proceed is welcome
> 
> With Thanks & Regards
>              Kanhu


What architecture? and are perhaps bridge-utils thought it had sysfs
support in the build, but it 2.4.19 doesn't have that.

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