Bridge Interfaces as inactive
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Got a strange one.
My office MLPPP driven box uses two (inactive) interfaces as part of a PPPoe WAN. Works as it should.
I tried to do the inactive thing as part of a bridge LAN.
I can set interfaces active with "none". Fine.
Include them on a bridge. Give the bridge the LAN address (actually VOIPLAN)
Set the interfaces as inactive (to get them off the dashboard as separate interfaces).
Set firewall rules for the bridge. Everything works fine. For several days. then the interfaces quit passing traffic.
Set them active again and everything works. Set them inactive and everything keeps working until a restart. Then all over again.
Config error on my part?
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Why are you setting them as inactive if you want to use them as part of the bridge?
While I've never used a PPPoE parent interface as part of a bridge in a more usual bridge configuration the member interfaces must be set as 'none'.Steve
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Keeps them from showing up on the Dashboard as separate interfaces under "Interface Statistics" and "Traffic Graphs". Im trying to keep the Dashboard a little less cluttered. :)
No big deal to keep them active but Im just curious if it should work this way since it does as a pppoe interface.
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Keeping something hidden from dashboard is a "wonderful" reason to create completely broken configuration. ::)
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To be honest it hadn't occurred to me that the bridge members could be inactive. I find it quite useful having them on the dashboard anyway as only the member interfaces show the connection status. The bridge interface always shows as 'up' even with no cables connected.
Steve
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Keeping something hidden from dashboard is a "wonderful" reason to create completely broken configuration. ::)
Well dok- That's why I'm here asking. Leaving them inactive on a pppoe configuration is normal so why not on a bridged interface?! Seems fine to me other than this intermittent issue.
Truthfully experimentation is good here. Since my config works fine otherwise Id have to say there's nothing "completely broken" about it but thanks for stopping by. ::)
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To be honest it hadn't occurred to me that the bridge members could be inactive. I find it quite useful having them on the dashboard anyway as only the member interfaces show the connection status. The bridge interface always shows as 'up' even with no cables connected.
Steve
You have a point there. I can see the lights on the ATA's when Im sitting in front of them but not when Im trying to solve an issue remotely.
Although I can always make them active temporarily if needed to see. No big deal- Ill just leave em up but figured Id share in case someone had some insight. :)
Ive stuck the LAN board out of a broke 1250e into my 550e so have a few extra interfaces to play around with. ;D
edit- And now that I just read another thread Im reminded that the extra 4 ports (the ones Im using as part of the bridge) could have the watchdog timeout. ::)
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They may not timeout, mine don't under normal use. There's an easy fix anyway. :)
Steve
