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On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:14:15 +0100
Andrew Wood <andrewjamesw...@ymail.com> wrote:
>Im (slowly) trying to setup bridging and TAP interfaces to use with QEMU
>so each VM can have a 'real' IP on the network rather than NAT.
>
>
>I now have a bridge setup (br1) using eth1 which Ive done in
>/etc/network/interfaces with:
>
>auto eth1
>auto br1
>iface br1 inet dhcp
> bridge_ports eth1
> bridge_stp off
> bridge_fd 0
> bridge_maxwait 0
>
>
>However I cannot work out how to add TAP interfaces to this bridge using
>that file. Currently I have to do it with the tunctl & brctl commands in
>a separate script.
>
>
>It is possible to do it in /etc/network/interfaces ?
>
>Thanks
>Andrew
>
Change the bridge_ports to:
bridge_ports eth1 tap0
then add the tap lines:
auto tap0
iface tap0 inet static
address 192.168.??.?
netmask 255.255.255.0
tunctl_user vboxusers
Change these as needed for your own setup. This works for me using
virtual box.
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