Examples for bridges about ansible-network-interfaces HOT 3 CLOSED

Hi hvisage,

so far I had no use case for bridges.
The defaults/main.yml contains all the available options and defaults.
If you have a use case, I would be more than happy to make an example out of it.

Yes my role creates a new /etc/network/interfaces that includes a configuration file for each device. That should make it much easier to manage the individual network devices.

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Just thinking out loud here but that shouldn't be too hard to add.

step one

• add the bridge-ports key to the device.j2 with (line 6)

step two

• ensure bridging utils are installed:
  apt: pkg=bridge-utils state=present

step three

• use a config something like this maybe?

network_interfaces:

- device: eth0
  description: bridge 1, NIC A
  auto: true
  family: inet
  method: manual

- device: eth1
  description: bridge 1, NIC B
  auto: true
  family: inet
  method: manual

- device: br0
  description: bridge 1
  auto: true
  method: dhcp
  bridge_ports: "eth0 eth1"

I'm guessing that would result in something like this hopefully:

 iface eth0 inet manual
 iface eth1 inet manual

 iface br0 inet dhcp
  bridge_ports eth0 eth1

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I added this example to the wiki Bridge-Example

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