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I have 2 addresses one on eth0 one on eth0.1. eth0.1 was created like this:

ip link add link eth0 name eth0.1 type macvlan

dhclient eth0.1 does not get an address, even though eth0.1 does even after assigning the IP manually, I cannot ping between eth0 and eth0.1

I tried Brigding:

# brctl addbr bridge
# brctl addif eth0 bridge
# brctl addif bridge eth0
# brctl addif bridge eth0.1
# brctl show
bridge name bridge id       STP enabled interfaces
bridge      8000.080027b37d2f   no  eth0
                            eth0.1
# bridge showmacs bridge
port no mac addr        is local?   ageing timer
 1  08:00:27:b3:7d:2f   yes        0.00
 1  52:54:00:12:35:00   no        44.45
 2  d2:b2:3a:79:9c:2c   yes        0.00

still can't ping between them.. What do I do?

edit: can't get an IP from dhclient either.

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Possibly a trivial omission: Did you do

ip link set eth0.1 up

after creating it?

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yep ifconfig shows all interfaces up. – user916499 Sep 11 '11 at 5:18
Hm... Some ideas: 1) Skip brctl addif eth0 bridge, 2) Change the name from eth0.1 to e.g. eth0mv1 (maybe something doesn't like ifconfig alias-like name connected with macvlan device). 3) Show output of ip addr show. 4) How do you test pinging between the interfaces? – Paweł Brodacki Sep 11 '11 at 5:28
well.. rebooted, tried 1 and 2. something seems to be working.. I'll update after I get some sleep.... – user916499 Sep 11 '11 at 6:28
Now I have a new problem but I'll ask it in a separate post. Thanks – user916499 Sep 11 '11 at 18:32
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