[Bridge] Set second IP on bridge

Malcolm Scott Malcolm.Scott at cl.cam.ac.uk
Wed Apr 23 15:59:15 PDT 2008


At 23:22 today, Koen Vermeer wrote:

> Now, for virtualization, I want to set up a bridge on my one ethernet
> interface. I can do this just fine, and end up with (let's say) br0.
> Then, I can set an IP address to br0. But what I want to do is set two
> IP addresses. I have been unable to do so thus far. Trying to use br0:1
> didn't produce anything useful.

That should work.  What happens?

You can also try "ip address add (...) dev br0" to avoid the old-style 
subinterfaces.

-- 
Malcolm Scott
Research Assistant
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory



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