8.2-PRERELESE ifconfig_bridge has no members unless run from rc.local

[Kim Culhan]

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:23 AM, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:

>  On Tuesday, December 07, 2010 5:17:30 pm Kim Culhan wrote:
> > Had been running a wireless bridge for some months in rc.conf:
> >
> > ifconfig_bridge0="addm wlan0 addm re1 up"
> >
> > Updated to 8.2-PRERELEASE 2 days ago and when the machine boots
> > the bridge has no members.
> >
> > Reversing the order of the members results in the bridge having just
> > the re1 member.
> >
> > Running the above command from a shell works and running from
> > an rc.local file also works.
> >
> > FWIW, running from a shell there is about a 3 second delay after hit
> enter
> > before it returns the shell prompt, members are then present.
> >
> > The lines in rc.conf:
> >
> > cloned_interfaces="bridge0"
> > ifconfig_wlan0="inet 192.168.1.50/24 channel 11"
> > wlans_rum0="wlan0"
> > create_args_wlan0="wlanmode hostap mode 11g"
> > ifconfig_bridge0="addm wlan0 addm re1 up"
> >
> > Tried replacing the re device with em, no change.
> >
> > Any help is very greatly appreciated.
>
> Most likely the bridge0 device is created by /etc/rc.d/netif before the
> wlan0
> device is created, so when the system startup tries to configure bridge0,
> the
> ifconfig statement fails.
>
> What does 'ifconfig -l' show after you have booted?
>
It shows:

re0 em0 plip0 lo0 bridge0

On the console at boot there is, after the file partition status and setting
the hostname:
ifconfig: BRDGADD wlan0: No such file or directory

Following this is:

Starting Network: lo0 re0 em0 bridge0

Which is followed by output the same as from ifconfig -a including bridge0
which
has no members.

Next is:

Starting Network: rum0
rum0: flags=8843<UP, BROADCAST  etc


-kim