Re: network card bridging failing on wheezy
Hi
On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 05:57:41PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote:
> For some reason my network card bridging has failed after working
> properly for many years.
>
> My /etc/network/interfaces is:
>
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
> iface eth0 inet manual
> auto br0
> iface br0 inet static
> address 192.168.1.14
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> broadcast 192.168.1.255
> gateway 192.168.1.1
> bridge_ports eth0
> bridge_stp off
> bridge_fd 0
> bridge_maxwait 0
>
> From a fresh boot, I get nothing running. If I bring up br0
> (ifconfig br0 up), it comes up with 192.168.122.1 whether I do it
> with eth0 up or down. Bringing up eth0 seems to produce the correct
> results - a network interface with no IP, same as it always did.
>
> Bringing up br0 with the 192.168.1.14 address leaves me with a
> machine that can't connect or be connected to. However, if I drop
> br0 and bring up eth0 with the address, things work, apart from the
> lack of a gateway.
>
> I can manually add a default gateway to the route. While this works,
> running the route command takes a long time to come back with the
> results. However my computer now connects and can be connected to.
Hm.. I don't see "auto eth0" anywhere....
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Karl E. Jorgensen
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