On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 20:07 -0700, Todd and Margo Chester wrote:
Do you want me to remove the "BRIDGE=br0" from "ifcfg-eth0"?
No, see the examples that were posted below.
But this doesn't. An ethernet bridge ties together multiple ethernets to give the "illusion" that it is one ethernet. An interface that is added to the bridge is just a bridge port. The configuration for the NIC should simply add it to the bridge, e.g.:
DEVICE=eth0 TYPE=ETHER BRIDGE=br0 ONBOOT=yes
The resulting bridge device (br0) is the interface to the new ethernet. So, if you want to give it a static IP address, do it in the bridge configuration. A quick example:
/etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-br0:
DEVICE=br0 TYPE=Bridge BOOTPROTO=static BROADCAST=192.168.255.255 IPADDR=192.168.255.10 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.255.0 ONBOOT=yes USERCTL=yes IPV6INIT=no PEERDNS=no ONBOOT=yes
The static address is the same as my ifcfg-eth0's static address. Is this on purpose?
Yes. As I said, br0 becomes the interface that talks to the network, so you have to configure the IP information there, and not in the eth0 configuration. eth0 just becomes a port on the bridge.
-- Daniel