ick, nope. Well, thanks for the hint :) But it should really work without even disabling NM. Instead I'm getting this in the logs: messages-20080514:May 13 09:15:32 magic1 nm-system-settings: ifcfg-fedora: error: Unknown connection type 'Bridge' What else could be wrong? <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Dan Williams <<a href="mailto:dcbw@redhat.com">dcbw@redhat.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 01:02 +0300, Ahmed Kamal wrote: > Hi, > I have setup VirtualBox, and set up its bridged networking. The weird > part is that somehow the bridge and my eth0 (sky2) were not being > brought up on system start! I thought maybe it was NetworkManager > weirdness, so I disabled that service. Now here is what happens: </div>After you've disabled NetworkManager, you need to also: chkconfig network on to get it to start at the right runlevels. Have you done that? Dan <div class="Ih2E3d"> > - Upon system start, I only get the following NICs: lo, vbox0 > - If I immediately issue a "service network restart", I get the > following NICs: eth0, vboxbr0, vbox0, lo > > Obviously, since nothing changed that a possible bug! Here are my > relevant ifcfg files > > [root@magic1 network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-eth0 > # Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8036 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller > DEVICE=eth0 > BOOTPROTO=none > HWADDR=00:a0:d1:2c:c6:08 > ONBOOT=yes > SEARCH="<a href="http://example.com" target="_blank">example.com</a>" > NM_CONTROLLED=no > TYPE=Ethernet > BRIDGE=vboxbr0 > [root@magic1 network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-vboxbr0 > DEVICE=vboxbr0 > TYPE=Bridge > BROADCAST=<a href="http://192.168.10.255" target="_blank">192.168.10.255</a> > IPADDR=<a href="http://192.168.0.254" target="_blank">192.168.0.254</a> > NETMASK=<a href="http://255.255.255.0" target="_blank">255.255.255.0</a> > NETWORK=<a href="http://192.168.0.0" target="_blank">192.168.0.0</a> > ONBOOT=yes > NM_CONTROLLED=no > > </div>> -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > <a href="mailto:fedora-devel-list@redhat.com">fedora-devel-list@redhat.com</a> > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list</a> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-devel-list@redhat.com">fedora-devel-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list</a> </blockquote></div>