You normally should not assign an IP address (or dhcp) to the member interfaces, only the bridge interface. Sibu Thomas Mathew wrote: > > Sir, > I shared internet on a LAN using my machine. It has got two ethernet > cards. I installed Ubuntu 8.04. I did the bridging using > "bridge-utils". Even though it turned out to be successful, I came > across certain other problems: > 1) I couldn't use the internet using my machine. > 2) After every restart, I had to redo the whole bridging configuration. > > This is how i configured. > The two ethernet cards are eth0 and eth1. eth1 is the one connected to > the internet. This is what I typed: > brctl addbr br0 > brctl addif br0 eth0 > brctl addif br0 eth1 > ifconfig br0 up > Then i edited the /etc/network/interfaces as follows: > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > auto eth1 > iface eth1 inet dhcp > > auto br0 > iface br0 inet dhcp > > After that i restarted the service by typing > /etc/init.d/networking restart > The bridging worked. The client machine could access the internet > except mine i.e. the server. Where did I go wrong? What can I do to > solve this. > > Looking forward for a solution. > Thanking you. > > Yours sincerely, > Sibu Thomas Mathew > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Bridge mailing list > Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
