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Subject: Re: if_bridge problem
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Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 05:31:12PM -0800, Sam Leffler wrote:
>> Scott Robbins wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>>> kldload if_bridge
>>>
>>> Then
>>>
>>> ifconfig bridge0 create
>>>
>>> When I did that today I got
>>>
>>> ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE2: Invalid argument
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you to anyone who can offer some insight. 
>>>
>>>
>> dmesg|tail will likely tell you the bridgestp module is missing.
>>
>> 	Sam
> 
> Thank you Sam, but that doesn't seem to be the case.  When I did a
> kldload of if_bridge, bridgestp was also loaded.  (Which of course, I
> should have mentioned in my original post, please accept my apologies.)
> 
> I don't know enough about if_bridge to know what other information might
> be important.   The ifconfig bridge0 create part has always pretty much
> Just Worked(TM) for me as long as I loaded if_bridge.
> 
> Thank you and again my apologies for not realizing I should have
> mentioned bridgestp in my original post.
> 
> 
I broke ifconfig cloning operations; should be fixed now.

	Sam