I have a PC with 3 Ethernet ports. I am able to share internet to the other two ports with internet coming in on eth1. I use the following setup on /etc/network/interfaces after aptitude bridge-utils and brctl addbr br0
auto lo br0
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth1 inet manual
iface eth2 inet manual
iface eth3 inet manual
iface br0 inet dhcp
bridge_ports eth1 eth2 eth3
But now I would like to give everything static IP addresses
iface br0 inet static
bridge_ports eth1 eth2 eth3
address 192.168.10.200
broadcast 192.168.10.255
gateway 192.168.10.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
iface eth2 inet static
address 192.168.10.201
broadcast 192.168.10.255
gateway 192.168.10.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
iface eth3 inet static
address 192.168.10.202
broadcast 192.168.10.255
gateway 192.168.10.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
Can I give eth1 a static IP Address too? That is where the Ethernet is coming in on. When Remote Desktop Connecting, I connect to the IP Address of br0. This configuration does not give me internet access though. I shouldn't keep the iface eth1,2,3 inet manual lines, correct?