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Date:      Mon, 03 Jan 2000 09:54:14 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: enabling bridge-support in rc.conf? 
Message-ID:  <200001031654.JAA36874@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 03 Jan 2000 16:42:04 %2B0100." <200001031542.QAA31990@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> 
References:  <200001031542.QAA31990@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>  

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In message <200001031542.QAA31990@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Oliver Fromme writes:
: This is how I do it:
: 
: cd /usr/local/etc/rc.d
: echo "#!/bin/sh -" > bridge.sh
: echo "sysctl -w net.link.ether.bridge=1" >> bridge.sh
: chmod 755 bridge.sh
: 
: Personally I don't think every sysctl know should have an
: equivalent entry in rc.conf, although bridging might be
: common and important enough to warrant one.  After all,
: there's one for IP forwarding, too.

/etc/sysctl.conf would do the same thing.  adding
	net.link.ether.bridge=1
to /etc/sysctl.conf will give you the same functionality.

Warner


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