[CentOS] OT: setting up a bridge

Tue Sep 13 14:02:46 UTC 2005
carlopmart at gmail.com <carlopmart at gmail.com>

In kernel 2.4 bridge module doesn't exists ....wih this name ..



Oliver Falk wrote:
> On 09/12/2005 10:54 PM, carlopmart at gmail.com wrote:
> 
>> hi all,
>>
>>  I am using centos3.5 for my firewall home. I would like to do some 
>> tests with bridge firewalling. When i try to create the bridge, brctl 
>> givtes me this error: br_add_bridge: Package not installed.
>>
>>  i find some answers about this error, but the most important is the 
>> one that says driver is not loaded into kernel. In my 
>> /boot/config-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL file appears compiled as a module, but 
>> how can i load it with modprobe??  .... :((
>>
>> Thanky you
> 
> 
> I guess, that brctl will not load the module automatically and your 
> system doesn't either...
> 
> Try it this way:
> 
> [root at pluto ~]# modprobe bridge; lsmod | grep bridge
> bridge                 52953  0
> 
> It's a FC4 in my case, but this should work with CentOS also...
> 
> Best,
>  Oliver
> 

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