ifconfig bridge0 does not list bridge data?

Bjoern A. Zeeb bz at FreeBSD.org
Thu Mar 19 00:45:13 PDT 2009


On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Stefan Bethke wrote:

Hi,

>>> This means that one of the BRDGGCACHE, BRDGGTO or BRDGPARAM ioctls has
>>> failed so bridge_status() in sbin/ifconfig/ifbridge.c exits early (the
>>> function that prints the info you are missing). Is it possible your
>>> sources are out of sync? If you look at it with kdump then the actual
>>> ioctl these are wrapped in is called SIOCGDRVSPEC
>>> 
>>> 
>> Try backing out r189864.
>
> That appears to be the culprit.  I've just rebuilt ifconfig, and without this 
> change, it displays the bridge info.

Heh. ok. I had tested that as well with a few setups but obviously not
enough. I'll look into this.

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