Hi! This is starting to be a question on how to to things and not a bugreport. I still cannot understand what you really are trying to do, for interfaces with a name you want you should look at iproute's doc, the ip command can give you aliases with any name you want, for info on how to do this on /etc/network/interfaces the doc of ifupdown starting with man interfaces should guide you.
If you still feel you want a bridge and that there is an issue with that on Debian, like you seem to suggest here: > If the original eth0 is brought up first, and then the bridge (say, eth1) > (or br1) is brought up second there are no issues really to begin with. > > However if the eth0 is then brought down, and we test the connection, the > bridge still functions, but eth0 doesn't work anymore. Then, if I bring down > the bridge and bring it back up again, eth0 functions again. I need to know what is broken, like you have just explained here, but also the files that may have implications with the bridge-utils behaviour here, like the full /etc/network/interfaces and also /etc/default/bridge-utils And if you send me the status of the interfaces before and after doing those commands and what commands you are really using then it would be great. Regards. -- Manty/BestiaTester -> http://manty.net
