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Offline dashism

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enabling microcore or tinycore to support "brctl" ?
« on: September 07, 2010, 08:39:51 AM »
hi
does anyone know how to use "brctl" command in TC or MC ? which extension is needed ?
I've tried "net-bridging" but it didn't work .
thanks

Offline curaga

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Re: enabling microcore or tinycore to support "brctl" ?
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2010, 09:09:51 AM »
net-bridging is the kernel side for that. Appears that nobody has yet built an extension for the userspace bridge tools.

At
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bridge/files/

if you'd like to give it a go.
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Offline tinypoodle

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Re: enabling microcore or tinycore to support "brctl" ?
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2010, 03:49:50 PM »
Some months ago I had done an intense research, in forum, wiki, repos and then with google about bridging & Tiny Core.
Result: Not even a trace.

On the other hand side, having a look at the kernel config files, it appears that net bridging was not supported by the stock kernel used in TC 2.x; but is supported by the new kernel in TC 3.x.
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Re: enabling microcore or tinycore to support "brctl" ?
« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2010, 08:20:13 AM »
thanks all
now the Question is that how can I build the .tcz extension from scratch ?!
and second one : what is usage of net-bridging ?

Offline Juanito

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Re: enabling microcore or tinycore to support "brctl" ?
« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2010, 08:29:29 AM »
now the Question is that how can I build the .tcz extension from scratch ?!

See the extensions section of the wiki

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Re: enabling microcore or tinycore to support "brctl" ?
« Reply #5 on: September 09, 2010, 08:50:38 AM »
http://hen-neko.org/howtos/bridging.html

See all the links in this document  ;)
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Re: enabling microcore or tinycore to support "brctl" ?
« Reply #6 on: October 21, 2010, 05:37:23 PM »
In repo now, and appears extension is older than this thread...   ::)

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/3.x/tcz/bridge-utils.tcz.info
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