[fedora-virt] Bridged Networking - Virtual Environments

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

On 01/18/2012 06:24 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:57:14 -0400
> Jorge Fábregas wrote:
> 
>> Why is it that (on almost any site that I visit with this setup)
>> they always end up assigning an ip address to br0?
> 
> I've noticed that too, so I just give my bridges static IPs.
> I've never known if the bridge can get an IP from the DHCP
> server or not, so I've just avoided doing it.

Yes, a bridge -can- get an IP from DHCP. That's what I've been using forever. Here is my
bridge config on one of my virt. hosts
###################################
[root at foobar network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-br0
DEVICE=br0
TYPE=Bridge
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
DELAY=0
[root at foobar network-scripts]#
###################################
[root at foobar network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-em1
DEVICE=em1
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
TYPE=Ethernet
ONBOOT=yes
IPV6INIT=no
NM_CONTROLLED=no
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=yes
PEERROUTES=yes
BRIDGE=br0
[root at foobar network-scripts]#
###################################

hth,

/kashyap

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