hi Aaron, I tried that, no such luck !/bin/sleep 20 didnt work i also tried adding sh /etc/netstart bridge101 to the rc.local that didnt work,
I ended up just manually destroying the bridge and starting it with sh /etc/netstart to get it running... Thanks Tom Smyth On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 at 02:04, Aaron Mason <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Tom > > Just looking at /etc/netstart (admittedly for 6.1) and by all rights > that shouldn't be happening - the VLAN interfaces should be starting > well before the bridges. Maybe add !sleep 1 to the top of the > /etc/hostname.bridge101 file and see if it does better? > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 12:22 PM Tom Smyth <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I have a box that I use to aggregate a number of vlans which are > > isolated from each other(using port protection groups and bridged > > onto a 10G interface ix0 > > these are configured using a standard hostname.bridgefile as follows, > > cat /etc/hostname.bridge101 > > maxaddr 16384 timeout 300 > > up > > add ix0 -stp ix0 > > add vlan604 protected vlan604 1 -stp vlan604 > > add vlan4069 protected vlan4069 1 -stp vlan4069 > > . > > . > > . > > add vlan3982 protected vlan43982 1 -stp vlan3982 > > > > when I reboot the box ... the system does not seem to forward frames ) > > > > but if I run > > sh /etc/netstart bridge101 > > > > then the bridge forwards the packets just fine. > > > > interface configs are as follows > > cat /etc/hostname.ix0 > > mtu 1700 up > > > > cat /etc/hostname.ix1 > > mtu 1708 up > > > > cat /etc/hostname.vlan3982 > > parent ix1 vnetid 3982 mtu 1700 up > > > > > > ifconfig bridge101 yields similar results after reboot as opposed to > > ifconfig bridge101 after restarting the interface > > > > the only differences I saw was the index > > > > after reboot the index of bridge101 was 6 > > > > but after restarting the bridge101 the index of bridge101 was 98 > > (which sounds to me like perhaps the bridge was being started before > > the vlans on bootup) > > > > > > has anyone come across this issue before? > > Thanks > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Kindest regards, > > Tom Smyth. > > > > > -- > Aaron Mason - Programmer, open source addict > I've taken my software vows - for beta or for worse -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth.

