Most of the examples for setting up the bridge interface on a VM host suggest assigning the IP address to the bridge. Assigning the IP to the bridge leaves you open to the MAC address of the bridge changing as you add/remove guests from the host, resulting in a brief (~20 second) loss of connectivity to the host. (I am aware that I can manually set the MAC of the bridge to avoid unexpected changes. That's my current workaround.) Is there a reason why the most common examples all show the IP assigned to the bridge? Does that approach provide some functionality that would be lost otherwise? I can think of at least two other approaches to configuring the networking: 1) Assign the host's IP to eth0. Since eth0 is a member of the br0, it should work just fine. 2) Assign the host's IP to a different NIC entirely. Say, eth1. Leave eth0 as a member of br0, but don't assign an IP to the bridge. Thanks! -Ben -- 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
