[CentOS] Question about setting up a bridge

Thu Jul 6 13:42:44 UTC 2006
carlopmart <carlopmart at gmail.com>

Many thanks Matt.


Matt Hyclak wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 03:31:11PM +0200, carlopmart enlightened us:
>>  Where I can find docs about config a bridge interface under CentOS 
>> 4.3?? I can not find anything on Redhat and CentOS sites about this.
>>
>> many thanks
> 
> A combination of google and reading the startup scripts in
> /etc/sysconfig/network scripts led me to the following ifcfg-br0:
> 
> DEVICE=br0
> BOOTPROTO=static
> IPADDR=x.x.x.x
> NETMASK=x.x.x.x
> ONBOOT=yes
> TYPE=Bridge
> 
> In the respective ifcfg-ethX files, configure as usual but include
> 
> BRIDGE=br0
> 
> 
> That seems to be the cleanest way to do things.
> 
> Matt
> 

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