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]hp

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Registered: 2005-06-01

Posts: 12

[SOLVED] Bridge

Hi all.

Can anyone give me some pointers on setting up a bridge?

I've done this already on Fedora but fancy having a go on Arch.

Installed bridge-utils,
aliased both network cards,
set the ips to be 0.0.0.0,
added bridge module into /etc/rc.conf

Is there something I can put into rc.conf to configure the bridge or do I need to do it with brctl?

TIA

John

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tomk

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Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: [SOLVED] Bridge

Have a look at /etc/conf.d/bridges and edit it as required. It's fairly self-explanatory.

]hp

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Registered: 2005-06-01

Posts: 12

Re: [SOLVED] Bridge

oh yeah that's really simple!

never knew that file was there  :oops:

thanks tomk

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]hp

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Registered: 2005-06-01

Posts: 12

Re: [SOLVED] Bridge

hmm. well to be more precise, it doesn't run according to plan in that file. i had to initialise eth0 & 1 in rc.conf and setup the bridge in rc.local using brctl. works fine that way. 

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