Setting Up a bridge
This material is proposed for merging ... It should be merged with How to configure a network bridge. See also the discussion of bonding, vlans, and bridges on http://lists.alpinelinux.org/alpine-devel between 9 Mar and 23 Mar 2012 (Discuss) |
apk add bridge-utils
vi /etc/network/interfaces
auto br0 iface br0 inet static pre-up brctl addbr br0 pre-up echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/bridge/bridge-nf-call-arptables pre-up echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/bridge/bridge-nf-call-iptables pre-up echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/bridge/bridge-nf-call-ip6tables address 192.168.0.253 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.0.254 post-down brctl delbr br0 auto eth0 iface eth0 inet manual up ip link set $IFACE up up brctl addif br0 $IFACE down brctl delif br0 $IFACE || true down ip link set $IFACE down auto eth1 iface eth1 inet manual up ip link set $IFACE up up brctl addif br0 $IFACE down brctl delif br0 $IFACE || true down ip link set $IFACE down ...
That way you create br0 with: ifup br0, and you can add/remove individual interfaces to the bridge with ifup eth0, ifdown eth0.