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On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 05:36:17PM +0100, Christoph Pleger wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I want to use a network bridge for networking on a guest computer. My host
> computer has two ethernet ports, eth0 and eth1, so I thought that it is a
> good idea to use eth0 exclusively for the network traffic of the host
> system and use eth1 exlusively for the network traffic of the guest
> system, both systems running a Debian Linux.
> 
> So, I chose eth1 for the network bridge. But after installing the guest
> OS, no network traffic is going out from eth1. Though tcpdump shows some
> outgoing ARP requests, these requests do not arrive anywhere.
> 
> What can I do to make bridge networking available on eth1? When I change
> the bridge device to my host system's eth0, everything is working fine.

You did remember to enable forwarding on the host

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

and put the relevant iptables rules in place if you're using a
firewall, right?

Greg


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