From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Aug 15 8:22:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4484B37B400 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 08:22:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fred.unique.com (host194.unique.com [213.86.7.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 11BB143E4A for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 08:22:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fred@unique.com) Received: (qmail 16452 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2002 15:22:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (127.0.0.1) by 0 with SMTP; 15 Aug 2002 15:22:16 -0000 Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:22:16 +0100 (BST) From: Fred Clausen To: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Ommision in section 17.3.4, titled "Enabling the Bridge". Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE. I was reading the handbook to find out how to set up a machine to act as a bridge. I followed the instructions in that section but it would not work. I then read bridge(4) and it stated that one also needs to add interfaces to the "cluster" by doing : sysctl net.link.ether.bridge_cfg=xl0,xl1 Where xl0 and xl1 are the interfaces in your machine. After doing that the bridging worked as expected. Also in section 17.3.3.1 titled "Network Interface Card Selection" it says that one can get a list of cards that support bridging from bridge(4) but there is no such list in that man page. I could write an updated bridging section for the handbook and send it to you if you like. Let me know if you are interested in such a contribution. Kind regards, Fred. -- Fred Clausen - Systems Administrator Unique Interactive, part of UBC Media Group plc Winners of the 2002 CRCA NTL New Media Award http://www.ubcmedia.com http://www.uniqueinteractive.co.uk T: +44 (0)20 7453 1667 F: +44 (0)20 7486 5081 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message