[K12OSN] OT Dual personality Server (network pass through)

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Dan Young <dyoung at mesd.k12.or.us> wrote:
> brctl in the bridge-utils package
>
> http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/bridge
>
> You can do this using the Fedora/Redhat sysconfig setup rather than
> twiddling w/ brctl by hand, the advantage being that
> /etc/init.d/network does the right thing. See that the bridge "device"
> gets the IP address, and the ethernet devices are bound to the bridge:
>
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-br0:
> DEVICE=br0
> TYPE=Bridge
> BOOTPROTO=static
> ONBOOT=yes
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> GATEWAY=10.0.0.1
> IPADDR=10.0.0.2
>
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:
> DEVICE=eth0
> HWADDR=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
> ONBOOT=yes
> BRIDGE=br0
>
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1:
> DEVICE=eth1
> HWADDR=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
> ONBOOT=yes
> BRIDGE=br0
>
> I assume there are equivalents for Debian/Ubuntu network scripts, etc.
>

Thanks Dan. I didn't figure it would be that easy. Problem solved. I
should have thought of that myself as I know the new ltsp setup uses a
bridged network device.

Thanks again.


-- 
Robert Arkiletian
Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada