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