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Date:      Sat, 3 Mar 2012 00:47:52 -0800
From:      hiren panchasara <hiren.panchasara@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   bridge interface type
Message-ID:  <CALCpEUGQ-3tci4EXrTA8yroydWxPoUpnH4sxtQn0uti9cP=P1Q@mail.gmail.com>
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I created bridge1 this way:

$ sudo ifconfig bridge create
Password:
bridge1

$ ifconfig bridge1
bridge1: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
    ether 02:32:c8:92:b6:01
    nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
    id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15
    maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp maxaddr 100 timeout 1200
    root id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 0 ifcost 0 port 0

but when I try to look at the interface via "struct sockaddr_dl",
sdl = (struct sockaddr_dl *) ifa->ifa_addr;

sdl->sdl_type is "IFT_ETHER" for that interface.

Shouldn't it be "IFT_BRIDGE"? What am I missing here?

Thanks in advance,
Hiren

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