Arch Linux

weemoney

Member

Registered: 2013-12-28

Posts: 2

Static Bridge?

Hello All,

     I have been trying to create a static bridge interface for use with VMs and have not had any luck. Setting the bridge profile to dhcp works fine, but I need my server to have a static ip address. Not sure if I am going about it all wrong, but I guess that is what I am here for.

     running "netctl start bridge" starts just fine with no errors in status or journalctl, however no ip address is assigned.  I have tried searching the forums and Elgoog to no avail and the wiki page for bridging tells nothing of static bridge.

Thank you for any help.

Here is my bridge profile as it is set now:

Description="Bridge connection"
Interface=br0
Connection=bridge
BindsToInterfaces=enp7s0
IP=static
ADDRESS=('192.168.1.15/24')
GATEWAY='192.168.1.1'
DNS=('192.168.1.1')
## Ignore (R)STP and immediately activate the bridge
#SkipForwardingDelay=yes
POST_UP="brctl stp $INTERFACE on"

And here is my standard static profile just in case:

Description='A basic static ethernet connection'
Interface=enp7s0
Connection=ethernet
IP=static
Address=('192.168.1.10/24')
#Routes=('192.168.0.0/24 via 192.168.1.2')
Gateway='192.168.1.1'
DNS=('192.168.1.1')

## For IPv6 autoconfiguration
#IP6=stateless

## For IPv6 static address configuration
#IP6=static
#Address6=('1234:5678:9abc:def::1/64' '1234:3456::123/96')
#Routes6=('abcd::1234')
#Gateway6='1234:0:123::abcd'

I have tried IP=no in both profiles just for testing as well as pretty much every damn combination of everything I can think of.