FBSD6 if_bridge

[Bruce A. Mah]

If memory serves me right, David Pierron wrote:
> I have been trying for some time to get if_bridge working on a FreeBSD 
> 6.0 machine.  I must be missing something simple.

[snip]

> fxp0: flags=8902<BROADCAST,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> 	options=8<VLAN_MTU>
> 	ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
> 	media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
> 	status: no carrier
> fxp1: flags=8902<BROADCAST,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> 	options=8<VLAN_MTU>
> 	ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
> 	media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
> 	status: no carrier

It looks to me like you didn't turn up either the fxp0 or fxp1
interfaces.  It's correct to leave these interfaces unnumbered (i.e. no
IP addresses) but they do need to be up.  Try adding these lines to
/etc/rc.conf:

ifconfig_fxp0="up"
ifconfig_fxp1="up"

Good luck,

Bruce.
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