kepo-ing Zz85

I’m glad.

Fixing the bridge in the wee hours- (laptop on the left, pc to be on the bridge in the middle, and console of my BSD server)

I managed to pinpoint the fault and get my network bridge working on the pentium II server again, and the isolated pc in my room is connected to the internet again.

So the PCI slot is damaged, after multiple reboots, and network configuration. So the network card got swapped to another PCI slot.

Here’s what I used to bridge the connections.


ifconfig bridge create
ifconfig bridge0 addm fxp0 addm rl0 up
ifconfig fxp0 up
ifconfig fl0 up
ifconfig fxp0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0
ifconfig rl0 up 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0
dhclient bridge0


So with this I avoided the migration of the server to the pentium 3 hardware, and delay installation of CentOs. Of course, there are tricky issues in FreeBSD, like a changing MAC address for the bridge each time its created. But this all I would like to say for now. If I may, I would go into the details of FreeBSD and the startup configuration scripts like /etc/rc.conf next time.