On Friday 26 November 2010 12:28, Robert Heller wrote: > > works before committing it to the config: > > > brctl addbr br0 > > > ifconfig eth0 down > > > ifconfig br0 192.168.1.100 up > > > ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 up > > brctl addif br0 eth0 > > You need to add the physical interface(s) to the bridge interface. Yes, thank you for this information. This is the set I had missed. > You can set this up to go automagically like this: > > sauron.deepsoft.com% cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 > # nVidia Corporation MCP77 Ethernet > DEVICE=eth0 > BOOTPROTO=static > HWADDR=00:19:66:D6:ED:93 > ONBOOT=yes > BRIDGE=br0 > > sauron.deepsoft.com% cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-br0 > DEVICE=br0 > TYPE=Bridge > BOOTPROTO=static > BROADCAST=192.168.250.255 > IPADDR=192.168.250.1 > NETMASK=255.255.255.0 > NETWORK=192.168.250.0 > ONBOOT=yes Thnx again for this information. -- Regards Robert Linux The adventure of a life time. Linux User #296285 Get Counted http://counter.li.org/