Network Bridge

[Chris]

I am using a laptop that has a network bridge btween the firewire
device and ethernet. I have never had isues with it before. It is not
pciking up an IP address. I am able to us an Ubuntu CD to boot linux,
and it works just fine, so it is not a hardware issue. The TCP/IP
settings under the bridge show that it is set up for DHCP. I even
tried setting a static IP address. No luck. Any suggestions? Any one
run into this before?

Chris Maness

 

[Detlev Dreyer]

I am using a laptop that has a network bridge btween the firewire
device and ethernet. I have never had isues with it before. It is not
pciking up an IP address. I am able to us an Ubuntu CD to boot linux,
and it works just fine, so it is not a hardware issue. The TCP/IP
settings under the bridge show that it is set up for DHCP. I even
tried setting a static IP address. No luck. Any suggestions? Any one
run into this before?

Well, I had exactly the same issue with my laptop right after installing
the latest October Updates. Neither the WLAN adapter nor the LAN adapter
(Ethernet) was working anymore with the spanning network bridge between
these two adapters and the firewire device. The bridge was not picking
up an IP address, no matter if assigned via DHCP server or static IP
address.

I removed the adapters from the network bridge and I also removed the
TCP/IP protocol from the bridge - the adapters were working again. Next,
I was re-activating the network bridge between the adapters and re-
activating TCP/IP (network bridge). The bridge picked up its IP address
as usual and the problem was resolved.

 

[Chris]

Well, I had exactly the same issue with my laptop right after installing
the latest October Updates. Neither the WLAN adapter nor the LAN adapter
(Ethernet) was working anymore with the spanning network bridge between
these two adapters and the firewire device. The bridge was not picking
up an IP address, no matter if assigned via DHCP server or static IP
address.

I removed the adapters from the network bridge and I also removed the
TCP/IP protocol from the bridge - the adapters were working again. Next,
I was re-activating the network bridge between the adapters and re-
activating TCP/IP (network bridge). The bridge picked up its IP address
as usual and the problem was resolved.

I'll give it a shot thanks.

 

[Chris]

I'll give it a shot thanks.

Thank You a Ton, that worked perfectly!!!

 

[Detlev Dreyer]

Thank You a Ton, that worked perfectly!!!

You're certainly welcome, thank you for the feedback. Glad that this
scenario worked for you as well.