Subject: Re: Should I use bridge for this or just rely on the routing table?
To: Michael D. Spence <spence@panix.com>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 12/15/2002 01:21:39
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 12:44:08PM -0500, Michael D. Spence wrote:

> Where's the recommended place to put the ifconfig bridge create command?
> And do I create ifconfig.bridge0 and put the rest of the config commands
> in there?

That's exactly the place. Put a "create" into the first line of it and
all will be good. I do configure the IP address in /etc/ifconfig.hme0
and then have this as /etc/ifconfig.bridge0:

--8<--
create
! /sbin/brconfig $int add hme0 add hme1 add hme2 add hme3 up
-->8--


Martin