Document error in handbook

Marc Fonvieille blackend at freebsd.org
Sun Dec 28 17:02:07 UTC 2003


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 at kai root]# sysctl net.link.ether.bridge=1
> sysctl: oid 'net.link.ether.bridge' isn't a leaf node
> 
> [root at 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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