On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Currently it isn't possible to to have an IP address on one of interfaces > attached to a bridge, one must always put the IP address on the bridge interface itself. > > I wonder if there is a technical reason for that? I would love to be able > to be able to chose any ONE interface attached to the bridge. > Example: > Assume br0 bridge with two interfaces attached, eth0 and eth1. > Then I would like to assign the IP address to eth0 instead of > br0. Ideally one should be able to just attach eth0 with an existing IP address > to br0. Migrating existing configuration to the bridge at the time a port is added (and back to one member when the bridge is dissolved) has been discussed quite a bit recently, and is completely different from trying to independently configure L3 state of bridge ports at arbitrary times. > > Jocke > > _______________________________________________ > 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
