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Date:      Wed, 21 Oct 2020 12:35:39 -0700
From:      John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>
To:        "D'Arcy Cain" <darcy@druid.net>
Cc:        "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de>, freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: When is a switch not a switch?
Message-ID:  <20201021193539.GG8272@funkthat.com>
In-Reply-To: <3ed627e2-d99a-107e-4135-8aef1ad4ec71@druid.net>
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D'Arcy Cain wrote this message on Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 05:28 -0400:
> On 10/20/20 4:36 AM, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
> > It's officially documented here:
> > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-brid=
ging.html
>=20
> I did see that.  Does that mean that I don't even need to create switches=
 at=20
> all?
>=20
> > "If the bridge host needs an IP address, set it on the bridge interface=
, not on the member interfaces."
>=20
> But I don't necessarily need an IP on the bridge itself, right?

I can't say w/o more info in exactly how your system is setup...  If
you could provide more concrete information about what interfaces you
are using, and what IPs are configured on what interfaces (or VMs),
that'd be helpful.

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  John-Mark Gurney				Voice: +1 415 225 5579

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