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Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 05:05:52 -0800
From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
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To: Chris <ccsanady@iastate.edu>
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Subject: Re: bridging question
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Chris wrote:
> 
> Hi, I was hoping someone could shed some light on the workings of the
> bridge code.  In particular, how it decides which interfaces to use,
> and how it can be configured.
> 
> I would like to have bridging on fxp0, and tap0, but not fxp1.  As I
> understand it, you need to do a "sysctl -w
> net.link.ether.bridge_refresh=1"
> so that the bridge code will pick up the tap interface.  Unfortunately,
> I
> am not able to remove fxp1 from the bridging config.  I tried something
> like
> 
> sysctl -w net.link.ether.bridge_refresh=1
> sysctl -w net.link.ether.bridge_cfg=fxp0:1,tap0:1,
> sysctl -w net.link.ether.bridge=1

If you use the Netgraph bridging, you can directl select which
interfaces are bridged
by whether or not you hook them into the bridge node.

> 
> However, this does not appear to work.  Any suggestions on how to make
> this
> happen?  Also, what are the defineable flags?
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris Csanady
> 
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