On Wed, 5 May 2010 10:06:04 +0200
Lars Täuber <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> why do all the howtos set the ip address to the brigde? Isn't it also 
> possible to assign the address the real interface?

No. packets get diverted to the bridge before IP processing.

> What's the difference between assigning the address to the bridge and 
> assigning the address to the real interface contained by the bridge?
> 

You end up with partial connectivity (send but not receive).

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