Re: brctl doesn't work on sparc64

Alexander Kulakov wrote:

> Bart De Schuymer wrote:
>
>> On Friday 05 December 2003 17:12, Alexander Kulakov wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Hi, All!
>>>
>>> $ brctl addbr br0
>>> gives me "br_add_bridge: Operation not supported". does it mean i 
>>> didn't
>>> patch kernel properly or missed something?
>>> i have "vanilla" linux-2.4.22 + ebtables-brnf-3_vs_2.4.22.diff.gz on
>>> "Sun Netra X1 (UltraSPARC-IIe 500MHz)".
>>>
>>> please advise. i spent too mauch time getting there to give up and
>>> install openbsd on that box.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> http://bridge.sourceforge.net/patchtracker.html has a link to a patch 
>> for bridge-utils to make brctl work on a Sparc64. I don't have a 
>> Sparc64, so I can't say if this (still) works.
>>
> thanks for reply!
>
> unfortunately, the patch doesn't match 2.4.22. however, i've tried to 
> apply it "manually" but it seems to me that kernel is changed 
> significaly and that didn't solve the problem.
>
well, finally i've got it up and running

thank you guys for help!




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