On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 09:15:42PM +0100, Stefek Zaba wrote: > > I leave it to the Relevant Authorities whether to classify this in one > of the three categories suggested in the Subject: line, or dispose of it > some other way. Those three possibilities, in order of increasing work, are > a) dismiss this as a newbie whinge - of *course* each network > interface needs an 'ifconfig up'. D'oh! > b) tweak the documentation to add the one-liner > # ifconfig rl0 up; ifconfig xl0 up > to the relevant Example; > c) tweak the brconfig code so that 'up' not only brings up the bridge > itself, but brings the NICs up too. (Probably a less than brilliant > suggestion, as it entangles things which should not be entangulated: > by symmetry, a 'brconfig bridge0 down' would rationally have to > down the two ends of the bridge, which would be Unexpected and > Inconvenient. >
a fix was just committed to the man page roughly similar to b) above. jmc
