[Bridge] eth0- can't enslave to br0, but eth0 is down and not part of a bridge!

wandering.womble at gmail.com wandering.womble at gmail.com
Fri Dec 30 00:11:33 PST 2005


Hi there-

perhaps I'm missing something obvious, but the subject summerizes what
I get everytime when I try the following:

eth0 is up and running, as bought up by booting.

$ ifconfig eth0 down
$ brctl show
-> empty list, no bridges
$ brctl addbr br0
$ brctl show
-> shows br0, no enslaved devices
$ brctl addif br0 eth0
-> Device eth0 is already a member of a bridge: can't enslave it to bridge br0.
$ brctl addif br0 tap0
-> ok
$ brctl show
-> lists br0, with tap0 as interface

What am I doing wrong?

Or is this not the expected behaviour- and if not, any suggestions for
how to fix it?

Note: I'm also getting kernel panics (see my previous post), but I've
found the above ordering at least doesn't take the system down.

Further note: eth0 is using the sis900 driver, loaded as a module.

Any help greatly appreciated- this is a real annoyance.

Thanks in advance-

Julian




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