Questions tagged [bridge]
A network bridge is a network device which transparently forwards packets between two or more network segments so that they appear as one local area network (LAN).
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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= 00:16:3e:24:26:...
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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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Assigning IP to a bridged interfaces
Is there a way to assign an IP to bridged interfaces? For example, under normal circumstances:
ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0
ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0
brctl addbr mybridge
brctl addif mybridge eth0
brctl addif ...
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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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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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Xen, bridge and multiple IPs on CentOS
There's a new server that is assigned 5 IP addresses. I want to use Xen to run several VMs with various services.
This is my first attempt to install Xen, I use this tutorial as a guideline. Stuck ...
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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 0....
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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 across 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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no network on domU in network-bridge configuration for Xen-4.0
I created a very standard Xen-4.0 domU with network-bridge configuration. However, no packets get out from the virtual machine to the network which bridge (peth0) is attached to. From guest I can ping ...
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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 does adding a non-VLANed interface to a bridge break the VLANed interfaces?
I'm working with VLANs on briges and have found that if I add a non-VLAN interface to any bridge, it breaks all the VLAN interfaces - packets leave just fine, but the return packets (which are ...
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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) ...
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