Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 22:04:43 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com> To: Willie Viljoen <will@highveldcs.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ethernet Bridging sysctls not taking effect? Message-ID: <20020814050443.GC7225@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <20020812230244.J6225-100000@phoenix.vh.laserfence.net> References: <20020812230244.J6225-100000@phoenix.vh.laserfence.net>
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On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 11:05:14PM +0200, Willie Viljoen wrote:
> 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?
Exactly what version of FreeBSD are you running? After a reboot, what
values are in the sysctl(8)s? Are you logging the rc(8) output (like
in console.log) so we can see the output when those sysctl(8)s are
supposed to be set?
--
Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu
| cjclark@jhu.edu
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