[kwlug-disc] Fedora 20 bridged networking

[Chris Irwin]

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).

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> 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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Chris Irwin
<chris at chrisirwin.ca>
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