[PLUG] Bridge is causing the kernel to panic

["Bradley Molnar" <brad-plug@litech.org>]

Hi All-

I am working with setting up a RH9 machine as a bridge firewalling bridge,
using iptables and the bridge-utils.

Once the machine is up and running I run this series of commands.

brctl addbr br0
brctl addif br0 eth0
brctl addif br0 eth1
ifdown eth0
ifdown eth1
ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0
ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0
ifconfig br0 0.0.0.0

and then all is fine until I try to actually use the bridging.  Even a
simple ping will cause a kernel panic.  I know that this isn't a ton of
details, but, I don't know if or where this information would be saved.

What I did manage to see was something about a frame error in the brctl.

At first I thought it might be a problem between iptables and the bridge,
so, I stopped and cleared the iptables rules, but the same thing happened.

If anyone can tell me where to start on this, it would be much appreciated.
Google turned up very little and searching on freshmeat and sf was also
somewhat futile in finding the particular project I was looking for.

I should probably also mention that this machine is connected to a T1, if
that makes a difference.  The company providing the T1 (allegiancetelcom)
placed a device that makes it so that we can connect the T1 to a standard
ethernet hub/switch.  This is how it is connected.

Thanks
-brad

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