Issued:
2013-02-20
Updated:
2013-02-20

RHEA-2013:0322 - bridge-utils enhancement update

Synopsis

bridge-utils enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Updated bridge-utils packages that add two enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The bridge-utils packages contain utilities for configuration of the Linux Ethernet bridge. The Linux Ethernet bridge can be used to connect multiple Ethernet devices together. This connection is fully transparent: hosts connected to one Ethernet device see hosts connected to the other Ethernet devices directly.

This update adds the following enhancements:

  • The man page was missing the multicast option descriptions. This update adds that information to the man page. (BZ#676355)

  • This enhancement adds the missing feature described in the BRCTL(8) man page, that allows the user to get the bridge information for a simple bridge using the "brctl show $BRIDGE" command. (BZ#690529)

All users of bridge-utils are advise to upgrade to these updated packages, which add these enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • bridge-utils-1.2-10.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • bridge-utils-1.2-10.el6.s390x.rpm
  • bridge-utils-1.2-10.el6.src.rpm
  • bridge-utils-debuginfo-1.2-10.el6.i686.rpm
  • bridge-utils-debuginfo-1.2-10.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • bridge-utils-debuginfo-1.2-10.el6.s390x.rpm
  • bridge-utils-1.2-10.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • bridge-utils-debuginfo-1.2-10.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • bridge-utils-1.2-10.el6.i686.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information