From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 13 22: 4:49 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 DD41337B400 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 22:04:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7382943E75 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 22:04:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crist.clark@attbi.com) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org ([12.234.91.48]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020814050446.DFOV19356.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@blossom.cjclark.org>; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 05:04:46 +0000 Received: from blossom.cjclark.org (localhost. [127.0.0.1]) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7E54jJK042037; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 22:04:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crist.clark@attbi.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g7E54i88042036; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 22:04:44 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: blossom.cjclark.org: cjc set sender to crist.clark@attbi.com using -f Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 22:04:43 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Willie Viljoen Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ethernet Bridging sysctls not taking effect? Message-ID: <20020814050443.GC7225@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: "Crist J. Clark" References: <20020812230244.J6225-100000@phoenix.vh.laserfence.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020812230244.J6225-100000@phoenix.vh.laserfence.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ 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 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 http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message