Re: [Bridge] Bringing up bridge at boot (properly)

["Adam Hewgill" <ahewgill@hotmail.com>]

Instead of answering the question asking for more detail let me
pose a new question that will be more beneficial.

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If you are using a machine as an ethernet bridge how are you
configuring it (include distro specific stuff) to create and enable the
bridge during the boot process?

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Thanks,
Adam  :o)


From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: "Adam Hewgill" <ahewgill@hotmail.com>
CC: bridge@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [Bridge] Bringing up bridge at boot (properly)
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 09:33:56 -0700

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:30:30 -0400
"Adam Hewgill" <ahewgill@hotmail.com> wrote:

 >
 > Currently my ethernet bridge has 2 intel 100mps NIC's that are
 > both part of a bridge. ( I followed the sample setup on the bridge.sf.net
 > page.)
 >
 > In addition to this I would like to access the internet from within the
 > ethernet bridge and when using the sample instructions I have no
 > gateway setup and no default route (0.0.0.0).  I know this data has
 > to be attached to the bridge device and not to an ethX card but I
 > don't know how to do this.
 >
 > Also I would like the bridge to come up and the ethX cards to be
 > added and the bridge configured at boot.  I don't like the idea
 > of using a rc.local script and would like to use /etc/sysconfig/network
 > if this is possible.   Is there a setup doc that describes this 
somewhere?
 >
 > Thanks for the help
 >
 > Adam :o)

The setup of network interfaces varies in each Linux distribution.
What version are you using? and do you want to use DHCP?