From owner-freebsd-net Mon Aug 19 11:43:11 2002 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 B9C0137B400 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:43:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server.rucus.ru.ac.za (server.rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.115.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AC5A343E72 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:43:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drs@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 65549 invoked from network); 19 Aug 2002 18:42:59 -0000 Received: from bashir.dsl.ru.ac.za (146.231.113.19) by server.rucus.ru.ac.za with SMTP; 19 Aug 2002 18:42:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 572 invoked by uid 1001); 19 Aug 2002 18:42:59 -0000 Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 20:42:59 +0200 From: David =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sieb=F6rger?= To: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bridging when one interface has no carrier Message-ID: <20020819184259.GA523@rucus.ru.ac.za> References: <3D61224B.2020902@isi.edu> <20020819102951.A38869@iguana.icir.org> <3D612D6A.9020604@isi.edu> <20020819181919.GA9000@tp.databus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20020819181919.GA9000@tp.databus.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon 2002-08-19 (14:19), Barney Wolff wrote: > Out of idle curiosity, why do interfaces have to have IPs assigned > to do bridging? That's not how "real" bridges/switches work. (I > should probably go search the archives, as this has surely been > answered before.) They don't - they just have to be up'ed. bashir:~$ grep ifconfig /etc/rc.conf ifconfig_tx0="inet bashir/28" ifconfig_tx1="up" bashir:~$ grep bridge /etc/sysctl.conf net.link.ether.bridge=1 net.link.ether.bridge_cfg=tx0:0,tx1:0 net.link.ether.bridge_ipfw=1 -- David Siebörger drs@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message