[Noisebridge-discuss] Bridging my unused eth0 interface...

[d p fenn]

>   I always use
>   wifi, never the ethernet port; eth0 sits there unused all the
>   time. Can I bring it up even without plugging a cable in to
>   it, add it to a bridge and use it to communicate with the LXC
>   containers? That would be cool.

like jof said, there's hw link and sw link. you should be able to do
something like:

  ifconfig eth0 media 100baset

to 'force' the interface state to be something other than what it had
negotiated (in this case 'no link').

w/ your bridging scenario, this would be using the interface in 'name'
only as none of your data should be going through the actual hw (unless
you have some seriously odd hw/drivers).

\p