[kwlug-disc] Fedora 20 bridged networking

Khalid Baheyeldin kb at 2bits.com
Tue Nov 4 09:37:21 EST 2014


Thanks Chris for this.

You mentioned brctl. Did you use brctl to create the configuration, or
just to start/stop the bridge?

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 12:55 AM, Chris Irwin <chris at chrisirwin.ca> wrote:
> It was requested that I post my bridge configuration. This is on Fedora 20
> machine with Network Manager disabled, since it's a headless machine with
> static configuration.
>
> I actually forgot how this network was configured when I offered to post
> this configuration. You'll note that there is no IP address to access this
> interface. It is purely dedicated to VM traffic. The host has an additional
> NIC for all of it's communication, configured in the normal way.
>
>
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-br_lan:
> =START=========================
> DEVICE=br_lan
> TYPE=Bridge
> BOOTPROTO=none
> NM_CONTROLLED=no
> IPV6INIT="no"
> IPV6_AUTOCONF="no"
> IPV6_DEFROUTE="no"
> =END==========================
>
>
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-p12p1:
> =START=========================
> TYPE="Ethernet"
> ONBOOT="yes"
> NM_CONTROLLED=no
> BRIDGE=br_lan
> HWADDR="00:0e:0c:cf:80:4d"
> IPV6INIT="no"
> =END==========================
>
> Within the VM definition xml, the network config looks like this:
> =START=========================
>     <interface type='bridge'>
>       <mac address='52:54:00:25:75:4b'/>
>       <source bridge='br_lan'/>
>       <model type='virtio'/>
>       <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03'
> function='0x0'/>
>     </interface>
> =END==========================
>
> --
> Chris Irwin
> e: <chris at chrisirwin.ca>
> w: http://chrisirwin.ca
>
>
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