Re: if_bridge problem

From: Sam Leffler <sam_at_errno.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:31:12 -0800
Scott Robbins wrote:
> I updated (after a couple of weeks) last night.
> 
> uname -a
> 
> FreeBSD mail.scottro.net 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Feb 25 01:16:20 EST 2007     root_at_mail.scottro.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/S11  i386
> 
> Suddenly I can no longer create a bridge.  I use it with qemu and
> usually do
> 
> kldload if_bridge
> 
> Then
> 
> ifconfig bridge0 create
> 
> When I did that today I got
> 
> ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE2: Invalid argument
> 
> I see a mention of an almost identical problem from August of last year.
> 
> 
> 
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=546442+0+archive/2006/freebsd-current/20060813.freebsd-curren
> 
> (Sorry about the wordwrap on the link.)
> 
> However, I've seen nothing recent so I don't know if this is just me or
> not.    
> 
> Thank you to anyone who can offer some insight. 
> 
> 

dmesg|tail will likely tell you the bridgestp module is missing.

	Sam
Received on Tue Feb 27 2007 - 00:31:13 UTC

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