Re: CURRENT: can not add device to bridge: ifconfig: BRDGADD igb0: Invalid argument

From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander_at_Leidinger.net>
Date: Sun, 18 May 2025 17:48:47 UTC
Am 2025-05-18 18:23, schrieb A FreeBSD User:
> Am Tage des Herren Sun, 18 May 2025 18:16:43 +0200
> Marek Zarychta <zarychtam@plan-b.pwste.edu.pl> schrieb:
> 
>> W dniu 18.05.2025 o 18:06, A FreeBSD User pisze:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > running recent CURRENT (FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT #68 main-n277334-d9900b9ea2b2: Sun May 18
>> > 16:51:02 CEST 2025), I ran into the following problem:
>> > Can not add interfaces anymore to a bridge device.
>> > Neither existing physical devices, nor epair devices created during setup of jails - with
>> > the result of no jails availabel and/or no bridge working.
>> >
>> > A more amusing part of this story is: I ran almost two identical boxes, based upon elderly
>> > IvyBridge CPUs, both on outdated ASrock Z77 Pro mainboards. One machine, the
>> > now-failing-one, has moved to AMD Ryzen 9700X based box based on ASrock B850 mainboard -
>> > just for the record, if this is of importance or interest.
>> >
>> > On both systems I use custom kernels, mostly disabling unused devices. Having an ABI issue
>> > in mind, I recompiled the whole world/kernel on the system with AMD CPU, but the issue is
>> > the still persistent.
>> >
>> > A real hardware problem or just a coincidence with faulty code?
>> >
>> > Thanks for helping,
>> >
>> > O. Hartmann
>> >
>> >
>> Hello Oliver,
>> 
>> please follow this commit:
>> 
>> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/b61850c4e6f6b0f21b36da7238db969d9090309e
>> 
>> and this thread:
>> 
>> https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current/2025-May/007602.html
>> 
>> TL;DR: set net.link.bridge.member_ifaddrs=1 (the earlier, the better,
>> loader.conf prefered) and before FreeBSD 16.0-RELEASE (still plenty of
>> time), either remove addresses the bridge members, or consider 
>> migration
>> to different bridge (Netmap ?!) or consider migration to different OS.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Marek
>> 
>> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> sorry for the noise.
> 
> Just after sending, I read the thread started by Cy Schubert 
> "epair(4)".
> Adding
> net.link.bridge.member_ifaddrs=1
> 
> solves the problem for me on the host in question!

You want to make it work without this. Short: use the IP on the bridge 
itself, not in the member IF.

Bye,
Alexander.

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