On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 08:59:26PM +0700, Insan Praja SW wrote:
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> Hi All@,
> Has anyone trying to set an interface cost on a bridge(4) devices?
> It doesn't seem to work to me.
> 
> What I'm trying to do is to create a link with L2 redundancy. I
> can't use trunk due to the nature of multi operator network. So I
> create both vlan(s) on both links and higher the cost on backup
> links. I can't do it on the backbone switch because this is a
> "shared" multipoint backbone.
> 
> When I tried;
> #ifconfig bridge0 ifcost vlan4010 1000
> 
> The machines replies;
> ifconfig: bridge0: 1000: invalid argument
> 

You need to issue at least
ifconfig bridge0 stp vlan4010
first. I guess you may want to do a
ifconfig bridge0 proto rstp
as well.

After that the command works.
-- 
:wq Claudio