When is a switch not a switch?

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Hi all,

> Am 20.10.2020 um 08:56 schrieb John-Mark Gurney <jmg at funkthat.com>:
> I have heard (and that is the way I do that), that you have to put the
> host IPs on the bridge0 interface, and not the em0 interface.

It's officially documented here:
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-bridging.html

"If the bridge host needs an IP address, set it on the bridge interface, not on the member interfaces."


Kind regards,
Patrick
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