bridging problem -- bridge needs IP address

Hi everyone,

i tried to set up a bridge with my fedora core 3, kernel
2.6.10-1.741_FC3. I entered following commands:

# ifconfig eth0 promisc up
# ifconfig eth1 promisc up
# brctl addbr br0
# brctl addif br0 eth0
# brctl addif br0 eth1
# ifconfig br0 up

It was possible to create the bridge, but there is a problem: The
bridge doesn't forward traffic until i assign an IP address to the
interface br0. But that's not what i want.
Any ideas?

Greetings

Peter