Actually, this worked. I am able to SSH to the box on the 192.168.2.200 IP address. I had a typo in my ssh command. Sorry for any confusion. Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, www.JAMMConsulting.com Will your e-commerce site go offline if you have a DB server failure, fiber cut, flood, fire, or other disaster? If so, ask about our geographically redundant database system. > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-virt-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-virt-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Neil Aggarwal > Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 1:11 PM > To: 'Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS' > Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] Error setting up bridge with > static IP address > > I did some more reading on the Internet and it looks like > I am supposed to set up the bridge on eth0 and configure > the bridge with the IP address of the host. > > So, I removed ifcfg-eth0:1 and changed ifcfg-eth0 > to this: > DEVICE=eth0 > HWADDR=[The MAC address] > ONBOOT=yes > BRIDGE=br0 > > I removed ifcfg-br1 and created ifcfg-br0 with this > content: > DEVICE=br0 > TYPE=Bridge > BOOTPROTO=static > BROADCAST=192.168.2.255 > IPADDR=192.168.2.200 > NETMASK=255.255.255.0 > NETWORK=192.168.2.0 > ONBOOT=yes > DELAY=0 > > I don't get any errors when I do service network restart > but now I can't ssh to the host using the 192.168.2.200 > IP address. > > I also tried setting these values in /etc/sysctl.conf: > > net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-ip6tables = 0 > net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables = 0 > net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-arptables = 0 > > net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1 > > and rebooting the machine. That did not help. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Neil > > > -- > Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, www.JAMMConsulting.com > Will your e-commerce site go offline if you have > a DB server failure, fiber cut, flood, fire, or other disaster? > If so, ask about our geographically redundant database system. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt