[Bridge] bridge-utils and ppp

[richardvoigt at gmail.com]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 9:00 PM, Lou Steinberg <lspam5 at operations.com> wrote:
> Hi Folks-
>
>  Forgive the newbie question, but my attempts to answer this through
>  google have left me confused.
>
>  I'm trying to bridge between a pair of ppp and eth interfaces in an
>  embedded linux distribution called SlugOS.  The kernel is 2.6.21 and my
>  understanding was that the 2.6 kernels have the mods to support ppp
>  interfaces.  When I try to add my ppp0 interface to a bridge, I get:
>  > $ brctl addif test ppp0
>  > can't add ppp0 to bridge test: Invalid argument

Does a bridge "test" exist?  What is the output of brctl show?

>
>  MTUs are set the same for all interfaces.  Is there a specific version
>  of the bridge-utils package I need?  The version packed for my
>  distribution claims to be 1.2-r0
>
>  Thanks in advance,
>  Lou
>
>
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