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Subject: Re: ifconfig: BRDGADD vr1: Invalid argument
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> did you start off with?
> 
>  # ifconfig bridge create
> 
> when your ifconfig -a should then also show:
> 
>   bridge0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>   (etc)
> 
> though it looks like 'cloned_interfaces=bridge0' is supposed to do that. 
> 
> cheers, Ian

sorry, cut and paste error with screen.  lo0 missing too :)

lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6
        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
bridge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
1500
        ether 2a:ba:6b:d8:1d:0d
        id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15
        maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp maxaddr 100 timeout 1200
        root id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 ifcost 0 port 0