On 04/05/2010 12:04 PM, Dan Johansson wrote: > Must I specify an IP for the br-eth3 interface? You do not have to specify an IP address for the bridge. In my case: mainbr0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr <mac> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:7328933 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:6992 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:481076877 (458.7 MiB) TX bytes:629184 (614.4 KiB) tap0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr <mac> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:139390 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:7460821 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:500 RX bytes:13554808 (12.9 MiB) TX bytes:601113602 (573.2 MiB) # brctl show bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces mainbr0 8000.<mac> no tap0 eth0 eth0 is the interface connected to the physical LAN. mainbr0 ties the VM's tap to eth0. David > > Regards, -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html