[ale] Rename br0 interface in Debian

[Alex Carver]

On 2019-11-29 19:16, Chris Fowler via Ale wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> From: "Alex Carver via Ale" <ale at ale.org> 
> To: ale at ale.org 
> Sent: Friday, November 29, 2019 6:09:22 PM 
> Subject: Re: [ale] Rename br0 interface in Debian 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> BQ_BEGIN
> 
> 
> https://wiki.debian.org/BridgeNetworkConnections 
> 
> Under "Configuring bridging in /etc/network/interfaces 
> 
> The name is entirely up to you just like you can name Ethernet ports 
> anything you want. 
> ___ 
> BQ_END
> 
> I assumed that th br in br0 would identify the interface as a bridge for debian's network control, but I'm not guessing that the bridge_* config entries below that would identify it as such. I'll have to change that file and restart. 

The bridge_ports is the keyword that signals that it is a bridge.  The
br0 is just an interface name and can be anything you want.  However, a
single port "bridge" doesn't make much sense.  You could rename whatever
port was assigned to br1 as simply wan or wan0 as you wish.  The
remaining ports can be bridged and called whatever you want as well.
You could even name the individual ethX ports to something meaningful
and then bridge them all into a bridge name of your choice.