Re: epair(4)

From: Dag-Erling_Smørgrav <des_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2025 22:20:07 UTC
Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> writes:
> qroxana <qroxana@protonmail.com> writes:
> > What's the best practice for setting up bridge0 on a NFS root
> > system?  [...]
> That's an interesting problem that I don't think was even thought
> about when bridge(4) was added to FreeBSD.  [...] I /think/ the tftp
> boot path configures the interface addressing via kernel APIs, and
> we'll need to undo it and flip it to a bridge.

This is not the only scenario where you might want to add a bridge to a
configured system.  I think it would be useful to have a setting that
causes all of an interface's addresses and routes to be moved to the
bridge when the interface is added to it.

DES
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