well...still cleaning up files to find what is and is not needed in those eth, bond, and br files... here goes.. one.... eth files nm_controlled no, master=bond0, slave=yes no ipaddresses or any of that stuff... bond file.. #1 thing....it must be name ifcfg-bond0, not just bond0 However, the eth files must reference solely as bond0 without the ifcfg. the bond file, for the moment had the ip addresses and stuff, not sure if I need them there or not. (probably do not need them, but it worked with them) nm_controlled=no BRIDGE=br0 bonding options go in this file too. in etc/modprobe.d/ you need to make a file called bonding.conf add this line alias bond0 bonding the ifcfg-br0 file, MUST be named ifcfg-br0 (or whatever your bridge is name, br1, br2, etc) should contain type=Bridge VERY IMPORTANT YOU SPELL IT WITH A CAPITAL B, and lowercase the rest of the word bridge. (that is what was needed...go figure) add the ipaddresses, netmask, etc etc etc to this file resolv.conf you want to add your dns servers, or for a quickie fix add nameserver 8.8.8.8 nameserver 8.8.4.4 (these are googles free dns resolvers) anyway, this is just a quickie solution, will be posting a vid of each step soon.. finally!!!!!!!!!!! updated from 6.0 to the new version....big update...gotta wait...won't let me access the VMs while updating...sounds scary...yikes _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos