From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 3 8:54:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F19791522D for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 08:54:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA62821; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 09:54:14 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id JAA36874; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 09:54:14 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200001031654.JAA36874@harmony.village.org> To: Oliver Fromme Subject: Re: enabling bridge-support in rc.conf? Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 03 Jan 2000 16:42:04 +0100." <200001031542.QAA31990@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> References: <200001031542.QAA31990@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 09:54:14 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200001031542.QAA31990@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Oliver Fromme writes: : This is how I do it: : : cd /usr/local/etc/rc.d : echo "#!/bin/sh -" > bridge.sh : echo "sysctl -w net.link.ether.bridge=1" >> bridge.sh : chmod 755 bridge.sh : : Personally I don't think every sysctl know should have an : equivalent entry in rc.conf, although bridging might be : common and important enough to warrant one. After all, : there's one for IP forwarding, too. /etc/sysctl.conf would do the same thing. adding net.link.ether.bridge=1 to /etc/sysctl.conf will give you the same functionality. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message