[Bridge] bridge_list orphans in linux-2.4
Stephen Hemminger
shemminger at osdl.org
Fri Dec 15 10:24:17 PST 2006
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:01:51 +0000
Alex Zeffertt <ajz at cambridgebroadband.com> wrote:
> Hi Majjari,
>
> We've solved the problem now. It turned out that the bridge_list in the
> kernel was not being corrupted. The problem was actually that
> "brctl show" was only returning the last 32 bridges created. We upped
> this to 2048, which required a brctl change and also a kernel module change.
>
> The patch is attached.
>
> HTH,
>
> Alex
>
I'll clean this up, and submit it. The current bridge-utils already supports
both 2.4 and 2.6, and handles up to 1024 bridges.
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