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

[Joel Jaeggli]

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On Oct 13, 2010, at 15:27, "d p fenn" <weasel at meer.net> wrote:

>>  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 (unles
> you have some seriously odd hw/drivers).
> 
> \p
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