BridgeInterface

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Maintainer

Daniel B.
Firewall Services
mailto:daniel@firewall-services.com

Description

smeserver-bridge-interface is a small package allowing you to bridge your Internal Interface with one or more virtual tap interfaces. It's main goal is to be used with the new OpenVPN-Bridge contrib, but it has been split in another contrib as it can be used in other situations (if you want to run a virtual machine on your SME Server with qemu for example).

Requirements

• SME Server 7.X

Installation

• install the rpms

yum --enablerepo=smecontribs install smeserver-bridge-interface

• Configure the bridge

Log into your server using SSH, and configure the bridge like you want. For most installation, the default settings should be OK, but you should check it:

db configuration show bridge
bridge=service
    bridgeInterface=br0
    ethernetInterface=eth0
    status=enabled
    tapInterface=tap0

• • bridgeInterface is the name of the bridge device (usually br0)
  • ethernetInterface is the real interface you want to bridge. It should allready be set to your actual InternalInterface
  • tapInterface is a list of tap interfaces to create and add to the bridge. Usually, you'll only need one tap interfcae (tap0)
  • status is the status of the service (should it be started automatically on boot)

Once you're sure everything is ok, just start the service:

/etc/init.d/bridge start

And check with ifconfig that everything is OK (eth0 and tap0 should have IP 0.0.0.0 and running in promiscous mode, br0 should have the IP of your Internal Interface)

You can also check the bridge is correctly configured

brctl show br0

Should output something like:

bridge name     bridge id               STP enabled     interfaces
br0             8000.00e04c101418       no              eth0
                                                        tap0

Uninstall

yum remove smeserver-bridge-interface

Source

The source for this contrib can be found in the smeserver CVS on sourceforge.

Bugs

Please raise bugs under the SME-Contribs section in bugzilla and select the smeserver-bridge-interface component or use this link

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