Re: ath, bridge, and dhcp... am i missing something?

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:10 AM, Joey Morin<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> $ ifconfig -a
> xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> 	options=9<RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU>
> 	inet6 fe80::210:4bff:fe09:7da4%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
>
> 	ether 00:10:4b:09:7d:a4
> 	media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP)
> 	status: active
> rl0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> 	options=8<VLAN_MTU>
> 	inet 192.168.58.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.58.255
>
> 	inet6 fe80::250:fcff:fe2a:d79b%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
> 	ether 00:50:fc:2a:d7:9b
> 	media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
> 	status: active
> ath0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>
> 	inet6 fe80::21d:6aff:fe13:1f17%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
> 	ether 00:1d:6a:13:1f:17
> 	media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap>
> 	status: associated
> 	ssid xxxxxxxx channel 2 bssid 00:1d:6a:13:1f:17
>
> 	authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy MIXED deftxkey 3 AES-CCM 2:128-bit
> 	AES-CCM 3:128-bit txpowmax 36 bmiss 7 protmode CTS burst dtimperiod 1
> 	bintval 100
> enc0: flags=41<UP,RUNNING> mtu 1536
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
>
> 	inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
> 	inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
> 	inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
<snip>

There is no bridge there, is that while you had the interface bridged?



> ath0 has an mtu of 1500.  there are some other interfaces i don't know
> anything about, some have odd mtu, enc0 has 1536, ng0 has 1492.  does this
> mean anything?
>

Those are all fine, mostly ath0 I was interested in, since it's 1500
it isn't the problem I thought it might be.