Can't bind IP to my bridge at boot time

Crist J. Clark crist.clark at attbi.com
Wed Apr 9 23:05:20 PDT 2003


On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 04:13:32PM -0400, D.Pageau wrote:
> If I uncomment #net.link.ether.bridge=1 in sysctl.conf my IP is not bind 
> to rl1 but if I leave it commented and type "sysctl 
> net.link.ether.bridge=1" at command prompt everything work fine.
> 
> Need help!
> 
> Thanks
> 
> $cat /etc/rc.conf
> ...
> ifconfig_rl0="inet 192.168.42.2 netmask 255.255.255.0"
> ifconfig_rl1="inet 216.1.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.240"
> #ifconfig_rl2 Bridge to rl1
> ...
> 
> $cat /etc/sysctl.conf
> net.link.ether.bridge_cfg=rl1,rl2
> net.link.ether.bridge_ipfw=1
> #net.link.ether.bridge=1
> 
> $uname -a
> FreeBSD x.x.x 5.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE #7: Mon Apr  7 13:35:54 
> EDT 2003

What messages pop up on the console during boot when this interface
should be configured?
-- 
Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark at alum.mit.edu
                                   |     cjclark at jhu.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc at freebsd.org


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