This is not related directly to LXC, but I know that some people here work for Canonical, and before I get back to Fedora, I need to ask a question. I already Googled it and believe me, nobody has an answer, all are more questions than responses.
I need to bring up 12 empty bridges, that is, bridges that have no interface and no IP. You may ask why, and I will respond "for business reasons, some virtual machines need to talk to each other back to back". In any case, in Fedora and similar this is a piece of cake. In Ubuntu, it seems impossible. The network configuration files seem to enter a chaos from which there no way to emerge without a reboot, but I cannot reboot a server every time it happens, rather change the distribution. In "interfaces", I have something like this auto br0 iface br0 inet manual pre-up echo "Starting $IFACE" pre-up ip addr flush dev $IFACE pre-up ip link set $IFACE down post-down ip link set $IFACE down How do I create the bridge? in /etc/rc.local I execute brctl addbr br0 There is nothing wrong with this , right? But when I try to do ifup br0 I get "Ignoring unknown interface br0=br0" if I do ifdown br0 I get ifdown: interface br0 not configured I checked and there is no line br0=br0 in /etc/network/run/ifstate The question is, how do I bounce from this? So far I have no idea, and nobody in the Internet seems to have a clear answer. I cannot believe that the Debian-like distributions have these kind of issues that simply are non-existent in any other Linux flavor. I must be overlooking something. Yours Philip note: I will allow access to the box anybody whose email says @canonical. The box is in development at this point. _______________________________________________ lxc-users mailing list lxc-users@lists.linuxcontainers.org http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users