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Subject: Re: FBSD6 if_bridge
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Bruce A. Mah on 12/02/2005 12:56 PM wrote:

>If memory serves me right, David Pierron wrote:
>  
>
>>I have been trying for some time to get if_bridge working on a FreeBSD 
>>6.0 machine.  I must be missing something simple.
>>    
>>
>[snip]
>
>  
>
>>fxp0: flags=8902<BROADCAST,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>>	options=8<VLAN_MTU>
>>	ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
>>	media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
>>	status: no carrier
>>fxp1: flags=8902<BROADCAST,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>>	options=8<VLAN_MTU>
>>	ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
>>	media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
>>	status: no carrier
>>

>>It looks to me like you didn't turn up either the fxp0 or fxp1
>>interfaces.  It's correct to leave these interfaces unnumbered (i.e. no
>>IP addresses) but they do need to be up.  Try adding these lines to
>>/etc/rc.conf:
>>
>>ifconfig_fxp0="up"
>>ifconfig_fxp1="up"
>>
They weren't connected at the time the ifconfig was run.  That's the 
reason for the no carrier ...  I'm sure it's something in the 
configuration ...