Bridge Interface Startup Issues

tangel

It appears that startup is having trouble bringing up my bridge interface. My intended setup is as follows:

LAN(LAN)* -> re0 -> 10.14.41.1
WAN(WAN)* -> xl0 -> 10.14.22.46(DHCP)
OPT1(OPT1) -> re1 -> NONE
OPT2(OPT2)* -> re2 -> NONE
OPT3(OPT3) -> re3 -> NONE
OPT4(GigaLAN) -> bridge0 -> 10.14.20.1

bridge0 = OPT1/2/3

I can configure this while pfsense is running and everything works great. The problem is only if I reboot the bridge doesn't get setup correctly and is missing its IP and dhcpd doesn't start at all because of the missing bridge.

My snapshot:

FreeBSD pforta.bass.enate.org 7.1-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p2 #0: Tue Jan 20 14:47:04 EST 2009 sullrich@freebsd7-releng_1.bgn.pfsense.org:/usr/obj.pfSense/usr/src/sys/pfSense_SMP.7 i386

system.log:

{…}
Jan 21 23:53:32 pforta kernel: ugen0: <ituner 0="" inc="" usb-lcd-20x2,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 2<br="">.00/0.01, addr 2> on uhub2
Jan 21 23:53:32 pforta kernel: Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
Jan 21 23:53:32 pforta kernel: IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processin
g.
Jan 21 23:53:32 pforta kernel: ad1: 95396MB <seagate st910021as="" 4.06="">at ata0-sl
ave SATA150
Jan 21 23:53:32 pforta kernel: SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
Jan 21 23:53:32 pforta kernel: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad1s1a
Jan 21 23:53:32 pforta kernel: re0: link state changed to UP
Jan 21 23:53:32 pforta kernel: re0: link state changed to DOWN
Jan 21 23:53:33 pforta kernel: re1: link state changed to DOWN
Jan 21 23:53:33 pforta kernel: re2: link state changed to UP
Jan 21 23:53:33 pforta kernel: re2: link state changed to DOWN
Jan 21 23:53:33 pforta kernel: re3: link state changed to DOWN
Jan 21 23:53:33 pforta php: : The command '/sbin/ifconfig 'bridge0' '10.14.20.1/
24'' returned exit code '1', the output was 'ifconfig: interface bridge0 does no
t exist'
Jan 21 23:53:33 pforta php: : The command '/sbin/ifconfig 'bridge0' up' returned
exit code '1', the output was 'ifconfig: interface bridge0 does not exist'
Jan 21 23:53:33 pforta kernel: xl0: link state changed to UP
Jan 21 23:53:33 pforta php: : Could not bring realwanif up in interface_dhcp_con
figure()
Jan 21 23:53:33 pforta dhclient: netstat
Jan 21 23:53:33 pforta dhclient: PREINIT
Jan 21 23:53:33 pforta dhclient[16452]: DHCPREQUEST on xl0 to 255.255.255.255 po
rt 67
Jan 21 23:53:33 pforta sshd[19027]: Server listening on :: port 22.
Jan 21 23:53:33 pforta sshd[19027]: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22.
Jan 21 23:53:33 pforta dhclient[16452]: DHCPACK from 10.14.22.1
Jan 21 23:53:33 pforta dhclient: netstat
Jan 21 23:53:33 pforta dhclient: REBOOT
Jan 21 23:53:33 pforta sshlockout[19064]: sshlockout starting up
Jan 21 23:53:33 pforta sshlockout[19064]: sshlockout starting up
Jan 21 23:53:33 pforta dhclient: Starting add_new_address()
Jan 21 23:53:33 pforta dhclient: ifconfig xl0 inet 10.14.22.46 netmask 255.255.2
55.0 broadcast 10.14.22.255
Jan 21 23:53:33 pforta dhclient: New IP Address (xl0): 10.14.22.46
Jan 21 23:53:33 pforta dhclient: New Subnet Mask (xl0): 255.255.255.0
Jan 21 23:53:33 pforta dhclient: New Broadcast Address (xl0): 10.14.22.255
Jan 21 23:53:33 pforta dhclient: New Routers (xl0): 10.14.22.1
Jan 21 23:53:33 pforta dhclient: Adding new routes
Jan 21 23:53:33 pforta dhclient: /sbin/route add default 10.14.22.1
Jan 21 23:53:33 pforta dhclient: Creating resolv.conf
Jan 21 23:53:33 pforta dhclient[16452]: bound to 10.14.22.46 – renewal in 10800
0 seconds.
Jan 21 23:53:34 pforta php: : The command '/sbin/ifconfig bridge0 destroy' retur
ned exit code '1', the output was 'ifconfig: interface bridge0 does not exist'
Jan 21 23:53:34 pforta kernel: bridge0: Ethernet address: 46:26:1f:bb:22:42
Jan 21 23:53:34 pforta php: : The command '/sbin/ifconfig ''''re1'''' up' retu
rned exit code '1', the output was 'ifconfig: interface 're1' does not exist'
Jan 21 23:53:34 pforta kernel: re1: promiscuous mode enabled
Jan 21 23:53:34 pforta php: : The command '/sbin/ifconfig ''''re2'''' up' retu
rned exit code '1', the output was 'ifconfig: interface 're2' does not exist'
Jan 21 23:53:34 pforta kernel: re2: promiscuous mode enabled
Jan 21 23:53:34 pforta php: : The command '/sbin/ifconfig ''''re3'''' up' retu
rned exit code '1', the output was 'ifconfig: interface 're3' does not exist'

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I did a bunch of testing and experienced similar problems. I believe its a 2.0 bug. You can see my work and the advise of others here. http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,12101.msg73547.html#msg73547 If you have any questions with what I have done or ideas how to troubleshoot this problem further, feel free to PM me.

Good luck,
-V

tangel

Do you know if we should open a bug for them or do other people do that from reading the forums?

If you find a bug, make a post on the forum. There are a couple posts detailing this issue not to mention I sent a PM to one of the ADMINS asking the same question as well as describing this issue. I switched back to 1.2.3 for the time but will setup my test PC with 2.0 as soon as I finish another project.

Good luck,
-V

eri--

This should be fixed on the latest snapshots.

tangel

Verified as fixed.

Thank you!