On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 02:52:10PM +0200, Jochen Hebbrecht wrote: > 2009/4/28 Ross Vandegrift <ross@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 08:44:50AM +0200, Jochen Hebbrecht wrote: > >> Thnx Richard! I will try this when I'm back home. > >> > >> So the configuration is good? I just need to: > >> > >> $ ifconfig br0 up > >> $ dhclient br0 > > > > That will work, but note that you configured the bridge in the Debian > > interfaces file: > > > >> >> iface br0 inet dhcp > >> >> bridge_ports eth0 eth1 > > > > So now all you need to do is "ifup br0" to activate it and "ifdown > > br0" to deactivate it. > > Okay, thnx! > > Just a small question, I think I need to configure eth0 and eth1 to > manual? And not to DHCP? > > Like this: > ---------------------------------------- > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet manual > > auto eth1 > iface eth1 inet manual > ---------------------------------------- Ah - I missed that. Yes, you definitely want to set the member interfaces to manual. > The thing I don't understand then: if you execute a dhclient on br0, > how does br0 know the configuration of eth1? Because there's a WPA2 > configuration on it. Will it use that settings too while bridging? I'll be honest, I'm not sure - I've never done that with wpa_supplicant and the debian tools. You might need to activate wpa_supplicant in the pre-up for br0. Check out the manpage for interfaces - it may have more details. -- Ross Vandegrift ross@xxxxxxxxxxx "If the fight gets hot, the songs get hotter. If the going gets tough, the songs get tougher." --Woody Guthrie _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
