ifconfig bridge0 does not list bridge data?

Jamie Gritton jamie at FreeBSD.org
Thu Mar 19 16:06:23 PDT 2009


Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Stefan Bethke wrote:
>>>> 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.

A fix for this is forthcoming, probably to the kernel and not
to ifconfig.  In the meantime, backing out r189864 will work fine.

- Jamie


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