On 20 May 2025, at 22:13, Michael Grimm wrote:
Kristof Provost <k...@freebsd.org> wrote:
There’s no reason to ever assign IP addresses to member interfaces.
Again, ifconfig bridge0 inet 192.0.2.1/24 is perfectly okay and will
continue to work. ifconfig bridge0 addm epair0a ; ifconfig epair0a
inet 192.0.2.1/24 is not.
I have read all mails in this and the other thread's mails and I am
still puzzled by the wording:
The documentation has had this warning for a long time: “If the
bridge host needs an IP address, set it on the bridge interface, not
on the member interfaces.“
Das "member interfaces" *include* or *exclude* the corresponding
epair0b part?
It does not. Typically you’d insert epair0b in a different vnet, but
either way, it is not a member interface of the bridge, so it can have
IP addresses assigned to it.
—
Kristof
