From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 3 19:30:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.vr.IN-Berlin.DE (gnu.in-berlin.de [192.109.42.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1C7715128 for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 19:30:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dva.in-berlin.de!balu@hirsch.in-berlin.de) Received: from hirsch.in-berlin.de (root@hirsch.in-berlin.de [192.109.42.6]) by mail.vr.IN-Berlin.DE (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA26493 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 04:30:33 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from dva.in-berlin.de!balu@hirsch.in-berlin.de) Received: by hirsch.in-berlin.de (Smail3.2) id ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 04:30:32 +0100 (CET) Received: by dva.in-berlin.de (Postfix, from userid 200) id A4A5010E6A; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 03:31:07 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 03:31:07 +0100 From: Boris Staeblow To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: enabling bridge-support in rc.conf? Message-ID: <20000104033107.A77947@dva.in-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh wrote: >/etc/sysctl.conf would do the same thing. adding > net.link.ether.bridge=1 >to /etc/sysctl.conf will give you the same functionality. /etc/sysctl.conf is not a -STABLE feature. But why do I have to sysctl at all? I believe a newbie to Freebsd assumes that the kernel-option BRIDGE should be enought to enable such functionality! Therefore net.link.ether.bridge should be 1 by default - or at least selectable by rc.conf. (like it is done for IP Forwarding) Boris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message