[ale] ip address on br0 but not on eth0

[Narahari Lakshminarayana]

This was a fantastic guide and Thank you for writing this.  It is truly
simple to understand.

On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 1:28 AM Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Narahari Lakshminarayana via Ale said on Thu, 2 Feb 2023 18:17:50 -0500
>
> >Folks:
> >
> >I am trying to get some networking knowledge.  I was setting up a
> >bridge and what I see is that I do a br show and I get the ip listed
> >there 192.168.0.80
> >
> >However the eth0 of the VM (not the host) shows no ip address.
> >
> >The MAC on the br0 has a reference to  the eth0 but no ip on the eth0
> >entry.
> >
> >It is so confusing. I thought the eth0 will have ip and not the br0
> >entry.
> >
> >In physical connections, the computer will have ip aka the either nic
> >will have ip, not the switch or the hub right.
> >
> >In VM world this br0 comes in the middle and confuses everything.
> >
> >Isnt br0 in VM world, the equivalent of switch in real world ?
>
> See "Steve Litt's No Bullshit Guide to LAN-Peer Qemu VMs" at
> http://troubleshooters.com/linux/qemu/nobs.htm .
>
> Just about every other supposed "VM networking guide" on the Internet
> is either half baked fakery or written so ambiguously as to be
> meaningless.
>
> SteveT
>
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