On 05/01/2012 02:46 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 05/01/12 11:03 AM, Boris Epstein wrote: >> 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. > > > no, no. the BRIDGE pseudodevice has the IP, network adapter(s) that are > bridged to it don't have their own IP at all If it helps, I show how to create a bridge as part of a bigger tutorial. I show ethX -> bond -> bridge, but you can drop the bond and go straight from ethX -> bridge. https://alteeve.com/w/2-Node_Red_Hat_KVM_Cluster_Tutorial#Creating_Some_Network_Configuration_Files -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.com