RE: [Xen-users] bridge-utils problem

["James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> I installed bridge-utils on my machine. Then I executed the script
> "network-bridge".
> All at a sudden, I cannot remote login my machine. Then I found that I
> cannot access the Internet on that machine.
> Is there anything I should notice when I installed bridge-utils?
> One strange thing is that I still can get the dynamic IP on that
machine.
> So I think it can connect to the DHCP server.
> But it just cannot connected to the Internet.
> Also, I allow all traffic on that machine through iptables.
> So I really don't know what happened.
> The OS of my machine is Opensuse 10.3.
> Any response is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
> 

In /proc/sys/net/bridge there are some settings that affect how the
bridge traffic interacts with iptables. I find that I have to set
bridge-nf-call-iptables=0 to make things work the way I expect, eg:

echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/bridge/bridge-nf-call-iptables

James


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