A small shellscript to work around a FreeBSD bug (208910) that requires you to move the vlan onto an epair member of the bridge, not on the physical interface in the bridge.

workaround_vlan_trunk_bug.sh

#!/bin/sh
set -o errexit -o pipefail -o nounset -o noclobber -o noglob

# Copyright (c) 2023 Andrew Hewus Fresh <[email protected]>
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usage() {
    echo "$( basename $0 ) vlan [ bridge ]"
    exit ${1-0}
}

err() {
    echo "$1" >&2
    exit 1
}

if [ $# -lt 1 ] || [ $# -gt 2 ]; then
    usage 1
fi

if [ "$1" = "-h" ]; then
    cat <<EOL
The '$(basename "$0")' tool works around a FreeBSD bug
when an interface both needs to be a bridge member and have a vlan
on top of it.

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=208910
EOL
    exit
fi

description="workaround for vlan bridge bug"

vlan=$1; shift
vid="$( ifconfig $vlan | sed -n 's/.*vlan: \([0-9][0-9]*\) .*/\1/p' )"

bridge=bridge0
if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then
    bridge=$1; shift
fi

parent="$( ifconfig "$vlan"  | sed -n 's/.*parent interface: //p' )"
[ "$parent" ] || err "Unable to find parent interface for $vlan"

if [ "$parent" != "${parent#epair}" ]; then
    echo "Already worked around"
    exit 0
fi

epair=epair0
while ifconfig "$epair"a > /dev/null 2>&1; do
    ifconfig "$epair"a | grep -q "description: $description" && break
    epair=epair$(( ${epair#epair} + 1 ))
done

ifconfig "$epair"a > /dev/null 2>&1 || ifconfig "$epair" create
ifconfig "$epair"a description "$description"
ifconfig "$epair"b description "$description"

ifconfig "$bridge" > /dev/null 2>&1 || ifconfig "$bridge" create

for i in "$epair"a "$epair"b "$bridge"; do
    ifconfig "$i" up
done

ifconfig "$bridge" | grep -q "member: $parent " ||
    ifconfig "$bridge" addm "$parent"

ifconfig "$bridge" addm "$epair"a

ifconfig "$vlan" -vlandev -wlanaddr
ifconfig "$vlan" vlan "$vid" vlandev "$epair"b