[Bridge] IP address on physcial interface instead of bridge interface?

richardvoigt at gmail.com richardvoigt at gmail.com
Thu Mar 25 10:03:34 PDT 2010


On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Joakim Tjernlund
<joakim.tjernlund at transmode.se> wrote:
>
> Currently it isn't possible to to have an IP address on one of interfaces
> attached to a bridge, one must always put the IP address on the bridge interface itself.
>
> I wonder if there is a technical reason for that? I would love to be able
> to be able to chose any ONE interface attached to the bridge.
> Example:
> Assume br0 bridge with two interfaces attached, eth0 and eth1.
> Then I would like to assign the IP address to eth0 instead of
> br0. Ideally one should be able to just attach eth0 with an existing IP address
> to br0.

Migrating existing configuration to the bridge at the time a port is
added (and back to one member when the bridge is dissolved) has been
discussed quite a bit recently, and is completely different from
trying to independently configure L3 state of bridge ports at
arbitrary times.


>
>    Jocke
>
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