CentOS - May 2012 - disconnected NIC under CentOS 6

Hello all,

I've got a multi-NIC machine on which I am running Centos 6.2. I am trying
to have a NIC configured with an IP address but not connected to anything.
The reason for this is to create a network currently only used by VM's
residing on the machine, with that NIC configured to have an IP address
that is a part of that network, with a view of connecting real machines to
the same network in the future. How can I implement that? Currently ifup
just refuses to bring that NIC up.

Thanks.

Boris.

On 05/01/12 10:38 AM, Boris Epstein wrote:
> I've got a multi-NIC machine on which I am running Centos 6.2. I am
trying
> to have a NIC configured with an IP address but not connected to anything.
> The reason for this is to create a network currently only used by VM's
> residing on the machine, with that NIC configured to have an IP address
> that is a part of that network, with a view of connecting real machines to
> the same network in the future. How can I implement that? Currently ifup
> just refuses to bring that NIC up.
create a bridge interface that isn't bridged to any NICs



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