[arch-general] bridge with netctl

[Paul Gideon Dann]

On Thursday 06 Mar 2014 16:14:19 arnaud gaboury wrote:
> > This configuration make no sense whatsoever.
> > 
> > 1) You create a bridge with no ports. What purpose does it serve?
> > 2) If you want to add enp7s0 as a port, why do you have a configuration
> > for enp7s0? If an interface is a bridge port, it cannot be used for IP
> > traffic, so assigning it an IP is pointless.
> 
> If I understand correctly, in fact I took the set up upside down. I
> tried br0 ---> enp7s0 when in fact the scheme is
> 
>                                       |-----> dev 1
> 
> enp7s0 ----> bridge br0 ----|
> 
>                                       |------> dev 2
> 
> Am I correct in this scheme?

What do you mean by dev 1 and dev 2?

Paul