Adding interfaces to bridge0

Mario Lobo mario.lobo at ipad.com.br
Tue Apr 10 18:56:10 UTC 2007


On Tuesday 10 April 2007 18:31, Kimi Ostro wrote:
> On 10/04/07, Mario Lobo <mario.lobo at ipad.com.br> wrote:
> > hello;
> >
> > This is the situation:
> >
> > Using FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE
> >
> > I have benn using qemu to roll a windows XP machine, using a bridge to
> > interface tap0 and rl0 on the same network my efault route board (xl0)
> > is.
> >
> > I was working great. A few days ago , I updated src/sys (kernel - because
> > of a java issue), recompiled & installed. Yesterday I needed to rum XP. I
> > started qemu and  windows started fine, the netword "hardware" came in
> > fine but I had no connectivity ate all. I pinged out from windows but
> > tcpdump would only report packets from tap0.
> >
> > I tried recompiling qemu/kqemu but no change.
> >
> > I closed qemu and tried to set up the bridge manually. That's when I
> > found why:
> >
> > kldload if_bridge
> >
> > ifconfig bridge0 create
> > OK
> >
> > ifconfig bridge0 addm rl0 addm tap0 up
> >
> > ifconfig: BRDGADD rl0: Invalid argument
> > ifconfig: BRDGADD tap0: Invalid argument
> >
> > I have 3 network boards on my machine and this happens when I try to add
> > any of them.
> >
> > Could this be due to kernel out-of-sync with userland?
> > something else?
>
> depends how out of sync? if more then a couple of days, you really
> should keep both userland and kernel in sync as it mos likely the
> problem.
>

Thanks for replying, Kimi
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