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<FONT FACE="Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Thanks Stephen,<BR>
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My set up is as follows:<BR>
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client -> eth2-eth3 -> cisco switch<BR>
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The client is directly connected to eth2 on the bridge, eth3 is directly connected to a cisco switch. The port on the cisco has spanning-tree disabled (with ‘spanning-tree bpduguard enable’) won’t won’t allow any bpdu’s to or from the port. The cisco or the client don’t report any errors or show abnormal stats – the communications just stop. The ports stay link up but no traffic can flow until the server is rebooted.<BR>
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After I enabled STP on the bridge I got the same issue (I had to remove the spanning-tree bpduguard from the switch port as it goes to err-disabled otherwise).<BR>
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Kind regards,<BR>
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Mark<BR>
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On 13/10/2010 16:46, "Stephen Hemminger" <<a href="shemminger@linux-foundation.org">shemminger@linux-foundation.org</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:27:18 -0400<BR>
Mark Liggett <<a href="mliggett@btisystems.com">mliggett@btisystems.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
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> Hi everyone,<BR>
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> I'm using Ethernet bridging on an up-to-date F13 system. I've created a bridge adapter br0 and added eth2 and eth3 to it. Everything works as expected for a short time before the 2 Ethernet cards used in the bridge start reporting millions of errors. I confirmed this is the case on 2 separate systems (although both systems use Intel NICs). To try to resolve this I've:<BR>
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> - Compiled and installed the latest Intel igb driver 2.3.4<BR>
> - Installed the latest Fedora kernel 2.6.34.7-56<BR>
> - Uninstalled the standard bridge-utils 1.2-9, before compiling and installing version 1.4<BR>
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> I've pastebin'd the system config here: <a href="http://pastebin.ca/1960777">http://pastebin.ca/1960777</a><BR>
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> You can see the errors listed on eth2 and eth3. I've tried both setting the bridge up using /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts as well as manually (using brctl and ifconfig).<BR>
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> My bridge/Ethernet interface configs are listed here: <a href="http://pastebin.ca/1960790">http://pastebin.ca/1960790</a><BR>
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> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.<BR>
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> Thanks,<BR>
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> Mark<BR>
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You might also be creating a packet loop?<BR>
Turn on spanning tree and find out.<BR>
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