[ale] Bridge eth0 to br0 to prep for OpenVPN

[DJ-Pfulio]

Didn't think you could have the same IP on 2 interfaces. I don't set an
IP on my physical interfaces that are used for bridges.

Bridges need more settings BTW.

On 01/28/2017 10:43 AM, Chris Fowler wrote:
> I want to being experimenting with OpenVPN bridged taps.  OpenVPN can
> automate the process of bridging tap0 and eth0 into br0.  I'm on Jessie
> and something in my head makes me think it would be better if I went
> ahead and simply create the bridge manually at boot and only bond with eth0.
> 
> eth0 is on the private net 
> 
> Change: 
> 
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet static
>   address 192.168.1.254
>   netmask 255.255.255.0
> 
> To:
> 
> auto br0
> iface eth0 inet manual
> iface br0 inet static
>   address 192.168.1.254
>   netmask 255.255.255.0  
> 
> 
> My logic is that in the process of OpenVPN creating the bridge and
> bonding eth0 there
> will be some disruption to traffic going across eth0.  If I create the
> br0 at boot thne OpenVPN just needs
> to bond tap0 to it?
> 
> Can I also create tap0 at boot and bond it to the bridge ahead of OpenVPN?
> 
> I'm playing around with some of my own ideas around SDN.  I have a Pi3
> and my goal is to make it's eth0  "Port 9" off my 8 port gigabit switch.
> I'm going to use OpenVPN as the transport back to router.  I'll bridge
> the tap to eth0. Once I get this uip and running I'm going to focus on
> the UX pieces and and config transport.  I know about OpenFlow, but I
> want to try out my ideas. 
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
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