Bridging Ethernet interfaces in Ubuntu 12.04

If you searching tutorial on how to create bridged interface, maybe you’ll refer to Ubuntu documentation. Honestly, it’s hard. Maybe it works. But in my case, it doesn’t.

Nevermind, here I give you guide on how to do it in easier way.

First:

sudo apt-get install bridge-utils

It will create new interface called br0

Second:

sudo brctl addbr br0
sudo brctl addif br0 eth0 eth1

You can restart you interface by this command:

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

You also can setup bridged interface automatically on boot by adding this to /etc/network/interfaces:

auto br0
iface br0 inet static
address 192.168.1.10
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
gateway 192.168.1.1
bridge_ports eth0 eth1

The important param is bridge_ports, which assign the ethernet port to bridge interface.

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