[CentOS] disconnected NIC under CentOS 6

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On 05/01/2012 02:46 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 05/01/12 11:03 AM, Boris Epstein wrote:
>> That's precisely what I planned on doing - but I believe the network
>> adapter needs to have an address first. Then you bridge pseudo adapters to
>> it. It would all be fine but I can't take this initial step of assigning an
>> IP address to the NIC in question.
>
>
> no, no.  the BRIDGE pseudodevice has the IP, network adapter(s) that are
> bridged to it don't have their own IP at all

If it helps, I show how to create a bridge as part of a bigger tutorial. 
I show ethX -> bond -> bridge, but you can drop the bond and go straight 
from ethX -> bridge.

https://alteeve.com/w/2-Node_Red_Hat_KVM_Cluster_Tutorial#Creating_Some_Network_Configuration_Files

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