Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 18:02:03 +0100 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> To: Matt Smith <matt@xtaz.net> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Document error in handbook Message-ID: <20031228180203.E52833@abigail.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <3FEF0064.6010701@xtaz.net>; from matt@xtaz.net on Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 04:10:12PM %2B0000 References: <3FEF0064.6010701@xtaz.net>
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On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 04:10:12PM +0000, Matt Smith wrote: > 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? > The mibs syntax for bridge(4) changed since 5.1-R, I just updated the chapter examples to follow this change. Thanks for the report. Marc
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