bridging VLAN interfaces and STP

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2012-Aug-26 08:12:51 -0400, "Dustin J. Mitchell" <dustin at v.igoro.us> wrote:
>On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin at v.igoro.us> wrote:
>> Hey folks.  I'm trying to set up a system with one 802.1q-tagged
>> upstream, and a few untagged interfaces.  So I'd like to bridge the
>> vlan(4) interfaces on vr1 to specific other interfaces.

Can you provide ifconfig output covering all the relevant interfaces.

>And I can verify that STP's *not* working on those interfaces because
>I just inadvertently created a forwarding loop.

I'm not sure if this is intentional.

>Incidentally, it makes sense in retrospect, but the if_bridge(4)
>manpage doesn't mention that gateway_enable is required for bridging
>to actually forward packets.

If this is true, it's definitely wrong and a regression.
gateway_enable relates to routing not bridging.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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