[WBEL-users] kernel-2.4.21-27.0.1.EL, re-compiling to support network bridging

[Paul]

You could try installing the kernel-unsupported package and see if that
fixes the issue.

Regards,
Paul Berger

On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 00:23 -0800, keith morse wrote:
> I'm hoping to get some feedback from list members.  My goal is to setup 
> a host with three network interfaces (eth0, eth1, eth2) and have the 
> eth1 and eth2 be used for a bridging firewall, with eth0 being used as 
> the management interface.
> 
> In reviewing the config files for the above kernel source package it 
> appears as though bridging should be enabled by support in the stock 
> kernel. But any time I issue a "brctl" command I get the following message.
> 
> 	br_add_bridge: Package not installed
> 
> When searching on google the items I find hints that bridging is not 
> setup in the kernel and the bridge module is not loaded.  If I do a:
> 
> 	"find /lib/modules -iname "*bridge*""
> 
> there are no resulting hits.
> 
> I've tried recompiling the kernel thusly:
> 
> 	rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.21-27.0.1.EL.src.rpm
> 	cd /usr/src/redhat
> 	vi SOURCES/kernel-2.4.21-i686.config
> 		to verify that bridging is turned on in the kernel
> 		in fact,
> 			grep -i bridg SOURCES/kernel-2.4.21-i686.config
> 		results in
> 			CONFIG_BRIDGE=m
> 			CONFIG_BRIDGE_NF=y
> 
> 	rpmbuild -ba --target i686 SPECS/kernel-2.4.spec
> 
> but for some reason the bridge module does not get built.
> 
> =========================================================================
> 
> I started the above this morning.  Subsequently I did find the answer in 
>   a forum on www.linuxhelp.net by hughesjr.  All I really needed to do 
> was install kernel-unsupported which contained the bridge.o I needed. 
> Thanks to hughesjr.  Just wanted to post this here for future searches.
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