From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 12 14: 5:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A958A37B400 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 14:05:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from prometheus.vh.laserfence.net (prometheus.laserfence.net [196.44.73.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7157E43E4A for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 14:05:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from will@highveldcs.com) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (helo=phoenix.vh.laserfence.net) by prometheus.vh.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17eMNW-00008d-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 23:05:30 +0200 Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 23:05:14 +0200 (SAST) From: Willie Viljoen X-X-Sender: will@phoenix.vh.laserfence.net To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Ethernet Bridging sysctls not taking effect? Message-ID: <20020812230244.J6225-100000@phoenix.vh.laserfence.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I noticed a small hitch with ethernet bridging when a power failure rebooted a machine tonight... It seems that if sysctls for bridging are placed in /etc/sysctl.conf, they are set to those values, but the kernel doesn't seem to take notice. Bridging only starts working once the sysctls are set -again- at run time. Could sysctl.conf be getting processed before code needed for bridging comes into effect? Bridging is compiled into the kernel on the machine. Does anybody know why this would be happening? I've devised a temporary solution for people who have noticed this, simply set the sysctls again from a file like /usr/local/etc/rc.d/bridge.sh or something to the same effect. Will -- Willie Viljoen Highveld Computing Solutions 214 Paul Kruger Avenue Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60, a/h +27 51 522 44 36 +27 82 404 03 27 will@highveldcs.com To find out how we can help you with inventive solutions, visit http://www.highveldcs.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message