Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 14:07:50 -0500 From: David Pierron <david@wombatsweb.com> To: freebsd-pf@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD6 if_bridge Message-ID: <43909B86.4050308@wombatsweb.com> In-Reply-To: <43908AB1.7030107@freebsd.org> References: <43904815.4070805@wombatsweb.com> <43908AB1.7030107@freebsd.org>
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Bruce A. Mah on 12/02/2005 12:56 PM wrote: >If memory serves me right, David Pierron wrote: > > >>I have been trying for some time to get if_bridge working on a FreeBSD >>6.0 machine. I must be missing something simple. >> >> >[snip] > > > >>fxp0: flags=8902<BROADCAST,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 >> options=8<VLAN_MTU> >> ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx >> media: Ethernet autoselect (none) >> status: no carrier >>fxp1: flags=8902<BROADCAST,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 >> options=8<VLAN_MTU> >> ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx >> media: Ethernet autoselect (none) >> status: no carrier >> >>It looks to me like you didn't turn up either the fxp0 or fxp1 >>interfaces. It's correct to leave these interfaces unnumbered (i.e. no >>IP addresses) but they do need to be up. Try adding these lines to >>/etc/rc.conf: >> >>ifconfig_fxp0="up" >>ifconfig_fxp1="up" >> They weren't connected at the time the ifconfig was run. That's the reason for the no carrier ... I'm sure it's something in the configuration ...
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