On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:56 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > On 05/01/12 10:48 AM, Boris Epstein wrote: > > Thanks! But if it is not connected to any NIC's then how would I connect > > external devices to it in the future? > > connect the bridge to a network adapter > > > That's precisely what I planned on doing - but I believe the network adapter needs to have an address first. Then you bridge pseudo adapters to it. It would all be fine but I can't take this initial step of assigning an IP address to the NIC in question. Boris.