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Networking and Samba from a quest OS running on qemu

I'm trying to test some software on a big endian system to ensure compatibility. My plan is to use qemu on Ubuntu 12.04 to emulate a MIPS system. So far I've been able to create the quest system ...
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Can I have a bridged interface without an IP?

I have 2 NICs: eth0 & eth1 on a host OS which runs some VMs (LXC) under it. The hosts eth0 is connected to a private network and configured as the primary interface. The hosts eth1 is connected ...
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tc on bridge port

I have a 4 port bridge: root@Linux-Switch:~# brctl show bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces br0 8000.000024cd2cb0 no eth0 eth1 ...
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To what extent does LXC manage configuring the network interface in a container?

In the LXC config file we can specify an IP address for a container: lxc.network.type=veth lxc.network.link=br0 lxc.network.ipv4 = 10.1.0.35/16 lxc.network.flags=up lxc.network.hwaddr= ...
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Network in LXC not forwading through a bridge

I've got an LXC container, on the host I've got a bridge between the LXC container and eth0. The LXC container can ping it's Host 10.1.0.5, but can't ping the gateway of 10.1.0.2. The host is able to ...
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Using a bridge, an LXC container can't ping router, but the host OS can

I've got a virtual machine running under virtualbox, and in that virtual machine I've got an LXC container I'm trying to bridge to virtualbox's NAT interface: ------------- ----------- ...
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Extra bridge interfaces get added automatically

I have a bridge set up between eth0 and br0, the bridge works fine, but sometimes, for unknown reasons and circumstances, I keep getting these off vethXXXXXX interfaces added to the bridge. When this ...
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lxc networking quesion

I have a similar requirement to the OP of this thread. I want the following configuration: -Physical host (PhyHost) reachable from the network at IP 10.1.101.89 -LXC container (LxcHost) ...
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RaspberryPi drops Wifi connection

I am using Airlink Fully compatible Wireless N 150 Ultra Mini-USB Adapter (AWLL5099) with my RaspPi to get internet. I am also bridging this WiFi connection with an Ethernet cable to provide internet ...
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How do I set up several interfaces all bridged onto eth0?

I have found several guides to bridging a single interface (eg br0) onto eth0 but none for multiple interfaces (eg br0, br1 etc). Is this possible?
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Cannot delete bridge - “bridge br0 is still up; can't delete it”

I have the same problem as this guy : Bring down and delete bridge interface that's up But that solution does not work for me. I remove all interfaces from the bridge using brctl delif . I then ...
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Wlan0 Static Ip bridge

EDIT: Even taking br0 out, still cannot get a static IP connection. I had the following /etc/network/interfaces configuration and it was working auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface etho ...
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Equivalent for netsh start network on linux

I recenty read about the Windows option for creating an access point, that will run on the same physical device, as the machine. So that I can connect my other devices to that network, and have access ...
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Why do the members of a bridge lose their Ip address?

I have created a bridge using to existing network interfaces: $ brctl addif br0 eth1 $ brctl addif br0 eth2 Why do eth1 and eth2 lose their IP addresses? What's the reasoning behind it? PS this is ...
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eth0 not getting disabled after setting up br0 interface

On debian squeeze, I setup a bridge based on eth0. My /etc/network/interfaces is # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface #allow-hotplug eth1 ...
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Bridge not working

We want to create bridge (mybridge) on our board over eth0 and eth1 interface. The board runs Linux 2.6.34.9. Following are the commands: brctl addbr mybridge ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0 ifconfig eth0 ...
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connecting (bridging) two networks

I would like to connect (bridge) two networks (ppp0 and eth2). Normally you would do this with brctl but one of the network-interface is a ppp-device so it won't work (ppp can't transport ppp-frames). ...
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How to know if a network interface is tap, tun, bridge or physical?

As far as i know, there are 4 main types of network interfaces in linux: tun, tap, bridge and physical. When i'm doing sys admin on machines running KVM, i usually come accross tap, bridge and ...
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VMware Player on Linux, bridge networking

I am having trouble with VMware Player 4.0.3 for Linux. I am trying to run a Linux virtual machine guest (from the Linux host), but am unable to successfully get an IP address on the guest with bridge ...
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Bring down and delete bridge interface that's up

How do I remove a bridge that has an IP address that was brought up manually and isn't in /etc/network/interfaces? $ ifconfig br100 br100 Link ...
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OpenVPN bridge. Can't access machines on local network

Followed this guide: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OpenVPN_Bridge This is my setup: I have a wireless router(192.168.2.1) which connects to the Internet through a PPPoE connection and acts as ...
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Why is VirtualBox Bridged networking slow

When logged into the guest, data transfer (scp) from the host is very slow (<1MB/s). Is this expected? setup: VirtualBox host is Debian Unstable VirtualBox guest is Debian 6 (Squeeze) Bridged ...
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Share Internet connection from a Debian laptop to a FreeBSD desktop

I have this situation: My Debian laptop is connected to the Internet via its wlan interface through my wireless router. Recently I decided to install FreeBSD on a very old machine (a celeron 300Mhz) ...
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Using bridge utils to connect two computers via Linux

I have been using bridge utils previously to connect my network connected computers to a single interface on my Linux computer. The problem I'm having is when I installed a new Linux (with Slackware) ...