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Subject: Re: Bridging-(How to test and verify that bridging is enabled)
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Faizan ul haq Muhammad wrote:
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>> Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 16:35:33 +0700
>> From: on@cs.ait.ac.th
>> To: faizi62@hotmail.com
>> CC: fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; fbsd1@a1poweruser.com
>> Subject: Re: Bridging-(How to test and verify that bridging is enabled)
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>> Hi,
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>>>> Are you using properly crossed cables?
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>>> Isnt it enough check for the that two linux can ping each other..
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>> Yes and no. You must used crossed Ethernet cable between your FreeBSD
>> bridge and each of your Linux boxes.
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> Frankly i am not sure about the cables type but they works PC to PC connectivity. 
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>> As someone suggested, what is ifconfig saying on the FreeBSD box? You
>> should see that both sk0 and sk1 have a status: active. Else it means
>> you have a cable problem.
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> sk0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
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> options=b<RXCSUM, TXCSUM, VLAN_MTU
>  ether 00:0a:5e:1a:69:25
>  media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex, flag0, flag1, flag2>)
>  status: active
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> sk1: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
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> options=b<RXCSUM, TXCSUM, VLAN_MTU
>  ether 00:0a:5e:1a:67:ee
>  media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex, flag0, flag1, flag2>)
>  status: active
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> here is the ifconfig output for the bridge interface:
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> bridge0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
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> options=b<RXCSUM, TXCSUM, VLAN_MTU
>  ether 0a:54:d7:7e:aa:66
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> inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
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> id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priortiy 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15
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> maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp maxaddr 100 timeout 1200
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> root id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 ifcost 0 port 0
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I think ifconfig bridge0 should list member interfaces.  Did you add them?