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| author | Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> | 2011-06-06 11:32:04 -0400 |
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| committer | Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> | 2011-06-06 11:32:04 -0400 |
| commit | 8bbe7adc00da05dd2b5a8a2df143ac6232ab5b4e (patch) | |
| tree | 38b431c6dd63a59f2706262860dbd9633d861b16 | |
| parent | f54717210eb74bc076cd6f76f0593b7ff0be920e (diff) | |
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add note about explicitly setting hwaddress for br0
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@@ -54,8 +54,15 @@ INSTALLATION auto br0 iface br0 inet static [Put your normal IP config for eth0 here...] + hwaddress ether xx:yy:zz:aa:bb:cc bridge_ports eth0 + Note: explicitly setting the hwaddress of your bridge to the same + MAC address as your existing NIC ("ip link show eth0 | grep ether") + is a good idea -- it seems to avoid periods of network connectivity + outages for the host when new interfaces get added to or removed + from the bridge. + * Alternately, you can create an internal-only bridge, and tell your host to pass traffic to it: |