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| - | Bridging is supported in the current kernels from all the major distributors. The required administration utilities are in the bridge-utils package in most distributions. Latest releases at [[https://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/net/bridge-utils/]], and historical releases are maintained at [[https://sourceforge.net/projects/bridge/files/]]. | + | Note: **the bridge-utils package is DEPRECATED**, instead use the //bridge// command from [[networking/iproute2|iproute2]] package. |
| - | You can also build your own up to date version by getting the latest kernel from [[https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shemminger/bridge-utils.git/]] and build the utilities based from the source code in bridge-utils GIT repository. | + | Bridging is supported in the current kernels from all the major distributors. The required administration utilities are in the bridge-utils package in most distributions. All releases are archived at: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/bridge/bridge-utils.git/refs/tags . |
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| + | You can also build your own up to date version by getting the latest kernel from [[https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/bridge/bridge-utils.git/]] and build the utilities based from the source code in bridge-utils GIT repository. | ||
| <code> | <code> | ||
| - | $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shemminger/bridge-utils.git | + | $ git clone -b main git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/bridge/bridge-utils.git |
| $ cd bridge-utils | $ cd bridge-utils | ||
| $ autoconf | $ autoconf | ||
| $ ./configure</code> | $ ./configure</code> | ||
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| =====Kernel Configuration===== | =====Kernel Configuration===== | ||
| - | You need to enable bridging in the kernel. Set "networking -> 802.1d Ethernet Bridging" to either yes or module | + | You need to enable bridging in |
| + | the kernel. Set "networking -> 802.1d Ethernet Bridging" to either yes or module | ||
| =====Manual Configuration===== | =====Manual Configuration===== | ||
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| - | The code is currently maintained by Stephen Hemminger[[shemminger@osdl.org]] for both 2.4 and 2.6 Linux. Bridge bugs and enhancements are discussed on the Bridge mailing list [[bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org]]. The list is open to anyone interested, use the web mailman interface [[https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge]] to subscribe. | + | The code is currently maintained by Stephen Hemminger[[stephen@networkplumber.org]]. Bridge bugs and enhancements are discussed on the linux-netdev mailing list [[netdev@vger.kernel.org]]. The list is open to anyone interested: [[http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#netdev]] |
| =====External Links===== | =====External Links===== | ||
networking/bridge.txt · Last modified: 2021/04/27 22:50 by xose
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