<div dir="ltr">I think I used brtcl to experiment with adding devices to and from bridges, but my actual configuration doesn't use it directly (unless the 'network' service uses it behind the scenes. Who knows).<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Khalid Baheyeldin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com" target="_blank">kb@2bits.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thanks Chris for this.<br>
<br>
You mentioned brctl. Did you use brctl to create the configuration, or<br>
just to start/stop the bridge?<br>
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On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 12:55 AM, Chris Irwin <<a href="mailto:chris@chrisirwin.ca">chris@chrisirwin.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
> It was requested that I post my bridge configuration. This is on Fedora 20<br>
> machine with Network Manager disabled, since it's a headless machine with<br>
> static configuration.<br>
><br>
> I actually forgot how this network was configured when I offered to post<br>
> this configuration. You'll note that there is no IP address to access this<br>
> interface. It is purely dedicated to VM traffic. The host has an additional<br>
> NIC for all of it's communication, configured in the normal way.<br>
><br>
><br>
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-br_lan:<br>
> =START=========================<br>
> DEVICE=br_lan<br>
> TYPE=Bridge<br>
> BOOTPROTO=none<br>
> NM_CONTROLLED=no<br>
> IPV6INIT="no"<br>
> IPV6_AUTOCONF="no"<br>
> IPV6_DEFROUTE="no"<br>
> =END==========================<br>
><br>
><br>
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-p12p1:<br>
> =START=========================<br>
> TYPE="Ethernet"<br>
> ONBOOT="yes"<br>
> NM_CONTROLLED=no<br>
> BRIDGE=br_lan<br>
> HWADDR="00:0e:0c:cf:80:4d"<br>
> IPV6INIT="no"<br>
> =END==========================<br>
><br>
> Within the VM definition xml, the network config looks like this:<br>
> =START=========================<br>
> <interface type='bridge'><br>
> <mac address='52:54:00:25:75:4b'/><br>
> <source bridge='br_lan'/><br>
> <model type='virtio'/><br>
> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03'<br>
> function='0x0'/><br>
> </interface><br>
> =END==========================<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Chris Irwin<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Chris Irwin<br><<a href="mailto:chris@chrisirwin.ca" target="_blank">chris@chrisirwin.ca</a>></div></div>
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