On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:51:50 +0800 Emmanuel Noobadmin <centos.admin at gmail.com> wrote: > On 4/29/11, Lucian <lucian at lastdot.org> wrote: > > Something seems out of order with the above; may I ask what exactly > > you are trying to achieve? > > Unless I read it all wrong you want (i.e.) x.x.x.2 on br0 and also > > on eth0? This cannot work. > > Well, I have a physical connected to the ISP modem/router which > assigned the connection a block of 8 IPs You don't need a bridge unless you want to do firewalling or some routing or network modification at the bridge. Just assign IP1 to eth0, IP2 to eth0:1, IP3 to eth0:2 and so on. /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:1 DEVICE=eth0:1 BOOTPROTO=none TYPE=Ethernet IPADDR=1.2.3.4 NETMASK=5.6.7.8 ONPARENT=yes Should do the work. Brgds