On 06/16/2014 08:55 PM, Sven Kieske wrote: > A bridge does not need an ip address > itself to pass traffic from interface A > to interface C, Correct, but... > so it could look like this: > > hw interface a <---> bridge b <---> vm interface c > 192.168.1.3 none 192.168.1.4 Wrong. In the above configuration the IP address 192.168.1.3 won't be recognized. That IP needs to be on the bridge in order to work on the host. This is what the OP was referring to with this statement: > Am 14.06.2014 08:41, schrieb lee: >> But when you attach them to bridges and don't have IP addresses on the >> bridges, then they are unreachable. Peter