From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 28 08:10:18 2003 Return-Path: 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 B98DE16A4CE for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 08:10:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from kai.xtaz.net (82-33-96-24.cable.ubr10.azte.blueyonder.co.uk [82.33.96.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C73C43D46 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 08:10:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@xtaz.net) Received: from xtaz.net (tao.xtaz.net [192.168.1.3]) by kai.xtaz.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 156D38FC70 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 16:10:13 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <3FEF0064.6010701@xtaz.net> Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 16:10:12 +0000 From: Matt Smith User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031101 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: doc@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Document error in handbook X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 16:10:19 -0000 Hi, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-bridging.html says that to enable the bridge you must set the sysctl net.link.ether.bridge. However on FreeBSD 5.x this is actually net.link.ether.bridge.enable by the looks of it as running the following doesn't work: [root@kai root]# sysctl net.link.ether.bridge=1 sysctl: oid 'net.link.ether.bridge' isn't a leaf node [root@kai root]# sysctl net.link.ether.bridge.enable net.link.ether.bridge.enable: 0 Might be worth changing it to mention this? Matt.