Hi there, why do all the howtos set the ip address to the brigde? Isn't it also possible to assign the address the real interface? What's the difference between assigning the address to the bridge and assigning the address to the real interface contained by the bridge? The situation: virtual machine host: eth0 vif0 (for virtual machine) ... vifx (for virtual machine) br0 (contains eth0 and vif*) Whats the difference between eth0 192.168.1.4 br0 0.0.0.0 and eth0 0.0.0.0 br0 192.168.1.4 ?? Thanks Lars
On Wed, 5 May 2010 10:06:04 +0200 Lars T?uber <taeuber at bbaw.de> wrote:> Hi there, > > why do all the howtos set the ip address to the brigde? Isn't it also possible to assign the address the real interface?No. packets get diverted to the bridge before IP processing.> What's the difference between assigning the address to the bridge and assigning the address to the real interface contained by the bridge? >You end up with partial connectivity (send but not receive). --