Re: creating a bridge in NetBSD?

[Jason Mitchell <jmitchel%bigjar.com@localhost>]

On 07/15/2012 10:17 PM, David Wetzel wrote:
> In therory, that should work.
>
> but there seems to be a problem since 2007:
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2007/11/09/0001.html
>
> # brconfig bridge0 add vr1 add ath0 up
> brconfig: add vr1: File exists
> # brconfig bridge0 add ath0 up
> brconfig: add ath0: Invalid argument
>
> # ifconfig ath0
> ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 2290
>          ssid alix apbridge nwkey 2:"",XXXX, XXXX,""
>          powersave off
>          bssid 00:0b:6b:de:0a:74 chan 3
>          address: 00:0b:6b:de:0a:74
>          media: IEEE802.11 OFDM54 mode 11g hostap
>          status: active
>          inet 172.16.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.16.0.255
>          inet6 fe80::20b:6bff:fede:a74%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
>
>
> any ideas?
The post you referenced says that the posted fixed the problem by making 
the mtu the same on both interfaces. So do:

ifconfig ath0 mtu 1500

    first, then try the brconfig command

Am 15.07.2012 um 17:39 schrieb Pierre Pronchery:
> > Typically, you'll simply do:
> > # ifconfig bridge0 create
> > # brconfig bridge0 add vr1 add ath0 up