well, I get no errors on network restart, but all that shows starting up is the loopback. ifconfig shows br0 with all settings right. here is what I have changed, still cannot access outside world with the virtual host machine. I am sure it is a resolution thing, but the network restart does not mention the bridge. No copy paste as using an ipmi card, so all hand typed here, so the capitalization is not correct in this post. Since this is a virtual host only, I did not do 'bind' and am just using google dns servers until I set up my own for resolution. netstat -rn shows two Br0 1 has the destination ip and genamsk, the other has the gateway /etc/hosts xx.xx.xx.xx main.xxx.com main 127.0.0.1 localhost.locadomain localhost ::1 main.xxx.com main localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6 /etc/host.conf order hosts,bind /etc/resolv.conf search main.xxx.com nameserver=8.8.8.8 nameserver=8.8.4.4 /etc/sysconfig/iptables (this is the basic install, nothing was changed by me) (copied by hand, did not type capital letters) :input accept [0:0] :forward accept [0:0] :output accept [0:0] -A input -m --state established,related -j accept -a input -p icmp -j accept -a input -i lo -j accept -a input -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 22 -j accept -i forward -m physdev --physdev-is-bridged -j accept -a imput -j reject --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited commit /etc/sysconfig/network NETOWRKING=yes HOSTNAME=main.xxx.com /etc//modprobe.d/bonding.conf alias bond0 bonding /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/br0 (this file is where I typed in the ip of my machine.) (normal stuff) Device=br0 type=BRIDGE nootproto=static ipaddr, net, broadcast, netmask, etc.. as should be nozeroconf=yes onboot yes defroute yes bond0 device bond0 nm controlled no bootproto no beridge br0 bonding opts, etc.. eths are all master bond0 slave yes, nm controlled no.