[tech] New gear
Michael Deegan
michael at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Mon Jan 19 10:04:34 WST 2009
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 02:10:33AM +0900, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Also, of course, some distributions (hai debian!) don't like you bringing up an
> interface with no IP address, kjust so you can use it as a bridging interface.
> I'd love to know how to tell ifup/ifdown to do this without putting in fake
> IP's into the interface. (hint: 0.0.0.0 doesn't work in all distributions.)
What about something like:
auto bridge
iface bridge inet manual
up ifconfig ethX up
down ifconfig ethX down ||true
(doing the same using iproute2 is left as an exercise for the reader)
Debian's /etc/network/interfaces is actually quite flexible.
-MD
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