From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 8 00:01:56 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A4CA37B405 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 00:01:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tokyo.ccrle.nec.de (tokyo.ccrle.nec.de [195.37.70.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1EE343F93 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 00:01:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Martin.Stiemerling@ccrle.nec.de) Received: from venus.office (venus.office [10.1.1.11]) by tokyo.ccrle.nec.de (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h3871mVI027542; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 09:01:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ccrle.nec.de (n-stiemerling.office [10.1.1.109]) by venus.office (Postfix on SuSE Linux eMail Server 3.0) with ESMTP id 9F63E9A225; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 08:58:54 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3E9273DC.9040700@ccrle.nec.de> Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 09:01:48 +0200 From: Martin Stiemerling Organization: NEC -- Network Labs Europe User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020619 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "D.Pageau" References: <3E91DBEC.5080602@infodev.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't bind IP to my bridge at boot time X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 07:01:56 -0000 As far as I know you can assign only one IP address when you are using bridging. This means only one interface is allowed to be configured with an IP address. Martin D.Pageau wrote: > If I uncomment #net.link.ether.bridge=1 in sysctl.conf my IP is not bind > to rl1 but if I leave it commented and type "sysctl > net.link.ether.bridge=1" at command prompt everything work fine. > > Need help! > > Thanks > > $cat /etc/rc.conf > ... > ifconfig_rl0="inet 192.168.42.2 netmask 255.255.255.0" > ifconfig_rl1="inet 216.1.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.240" > #ifconfig_rl2 Bridge to rl1 > ... > > $cat /etc/sysctl.conf > net.link.ether.bridge_cfg=rl1,rl2 > net.link.ether.bridge_ipfw=1 > #net.link.ether.bridge=1 > > $uname -a > FreeBSD x.x.x 5.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE #7: Mon Apr 7 13:35:54 > EDT 2003 > -- Martin Stiemerling NEC Europe Ltd. -- Network Laboratories Stiemerling@ccrle.nec.de IPv4: http://www.ccrle.nec.de IPv6: http://www.ipv6.ccrle.nec.de