ethernet bridge connection

[Justin Willmert]

Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT wrote:

> hi Greg,
> i have been using xp for years and done bridge connection many times 
> before.
> just select network connections then establish a bridge between 2 
> ethernet cards.
> know how to do this in xp. (alsa have that special cable i mean 
> ethernet cable)
> i asked this question in order to learn if theres an interface in 
> Fedora ,as in xp, to select my cards and establish a brigde between 
> them too. or a command to do this job for me ?
> thanks...

If you're looking for a gui interface, I'm afraid I can't help you 
there, but there is a way to do it through the command line. It's not 
terribly difficult as long as you can edit files and restart services 
through the CLI. You want to look into the bridge-utils package. It'll 
provide the programs you need.

Here are two links I used to help set me up (you'll probably need to 
google some more info, but this should get you started):

http://fedoranews.org/blog/?p=620

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8172

You may also want to look into ebtables (mentioned in one of the 
articles). I haven't gotten around to investigating into it yet, so I've 
got no comment on how it works, but I saw it a lot while googling for 
info, so it's just something to keep in mind.

Hope this helps you,
Justin Willmert