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Trogle

Member

Registered: 2022-04-27

Posts: 17

Networking bridge and wireless on a home server

Hi,
I've a home server with a wireless card and two ethernet cards, I run KDE and Network Manager. It's my daily driver machine, but I want to run VMs and have them available on a separate subnet as part of my home network.

I'd like the day-to-day functions of the computer to only use the wireless network on the normal subnet. The ethernet is connected via powerline.

All the VMs will get addresses from the router via DHCP and if possible the bridge should get an IP from there too.

I've set up a bridge using the following commands;

ip link add vm_bridge type bridge
ip link set dev vm_bridge up
ip link set enp39s0 master vm_bridge
bridge link

but I'd like this arrangement to be persistent across reboots and keep NetworkManager trying to connect to the bridge.

Any ideas about the best way to set this up? I don't mind using something like wicd, or wpa_supplicant as the machine will never move to another network.

Thanks

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 13,237

Re: Networking bridge and wireless on a home server

Is there a specific reason you don't want NM to manage the bridge ?

If not, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Networ … orkManager

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