The Virtual Guest is not setup until I can get a operational Network on FC12.

I have a Bridge br0 setup to eth0, but when I reboot box I have no Network present for Fedora 12.

NetworkManager is disabled

Network Configuration shows br0 as Active but eth0 is Inactive .


Below is /var/log/messages for br0 and eth0


These two lines below in messages are saying something about the IP of 192.168.122.1 , I do not have the 198.168.x.x on my Network,
the IP's are all 172.16.x.x

What is this all about ?

May 4 14:32:07 localhost avahi-daemon[1390]: Registering new address record for 192.168.122.1 on virbr0.IPv4.

May 4 14:32:07 localhost dnsmasq[1843]: failed to bind listening socket for 192.168.122.1: Address already in use





br0 messages




May 4 14:32:04 localhost kernel: br0: port 1(eth0) entering learning state

May 4 14:32:04 localhost avahi-daemon[1390]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface br0.IPv4 with address 172.16.1.103.

May 4 14:32:04 localhost avahi-daemon[1390]: New relevant interface br0.IPv4 for mDNS

May 4 14:32:04 localhost avahi-daemon[1390]: Registering new address record for fe80::6ef0:49ff:fe06:47cb on br0.*.
May 4 14:32:04 localhost avahi-daemon[1390]: Registering new address record for 172.16.1.103 on br0.IPv4.
May 4 14:32:04 localhost avahi-daemon[1390]: Registering new address record for fe80::6ef0:49ff:fe06:47cb on eth0.*.
May 4 14:32:04 localhost avahi-daemon[1390]: Registering HINFO record with values 'X86_64'/'LINUX'.


May 4 14:32:04 localhost kernel: br0: port 1(eth0) entering learning state

May 4 14:32:04 localhost avahi-daemon[1390]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface br0.IPv4 with address 172.16.1.103
May 4 14:32:04 localhost avahi-daemon[13 90]: New relevant interface br0.IPv4 for mDNS.

May 4 14:32:04 localhost avahi-daemon[1390]: Registering new address record for fe80::6ef0:49ff:fe06:47cb on br0.*.
May 4 14:32:04 localhost avahi-daemon[1390]: Registering new address record for 172.16.1.103 on br0.IPv4.
May 4 14:32:04 localhost avahi-daemon[1390]: Registering new address record for fe80::6ef0:49ff:fe06:47cb on eth0.*.
May 4 14:32:04 localhost avahi-daemon[1390]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface br0.IPv4 with address 172.16.1.103.
May 4 14:32:04 localhost avahi-daemon[1390]: Loading service file /services/ssh.service.
May 4 14:32:04 localhost avahi-daemon[1390]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface br0.IPv4 with address 172.16.1.103.
May 4 14:32:04 localhost avahi-daemon[1390]: New relevant interface br0.IPv4 for mDNS.
May 4 14:32:04 localhost avahi-daemon[1390]: Network interface enumeration completed.
May 4 14:32:04 localhost avahi-daemon[1390]: Registering new address record for fe80::6ef0:49ff:fe06:47cb on br0.*.
May 4 14:32:04 localhost avahi-daemon[1390]: Registering new address record for 172.16.1.103 on br0.IPv4.
May 4 14:32:04 localhost avahi-daemon[1390]: Registering new address record for fe80::6ef0:49ff:fe06:47cb on eth0.*.

May 4 14:32:06 localhost ntpd[1670]: Listening on interface #3 br0, fe80::6ef0:49ff:fe06:47cb#123 Enabled
May 4 14:32:06 localhost ntpd[1670]: Listening on interface #4 lo, 127.0.0.1#123 Enabled
May 4 14:32:06 localhost ntpd[1670]: Listening on interface #5 br0, 172.16.1.103#123 Enabled

May 4 14:32:07 localhost kernel: virbr0: starting userspace STP failed, starting kernel STP
May 4 14:32:07 localhost avahi-daemon[1390]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface virbr0.IPv4 with address 192.168.122.1.
May 4 14:32:07 localhost avahi-daemon[1390]: New relevant interface virbr0.IPv4 for mDNS.
May 4 14:32:07 localhost avahi-daemon[1390]: Registering new address record for 192.168.122.1 on virbr0.IPv4.
May 4 14:32:07 localhost dnsmasq[1843]: failed to bind listening socket for 192.168.122.1: Address already in use
May 4 14:32:07 localhost dnsmasq[1843]: FAILED to start up
May 4 14:32:07 localhost avahi-daemon[1390]: Interface virbr0.IPv4 no longer relevant for mDNS.
May 4 14:32:07 localhost avahi-daemon[1390]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface virbr0.IPv4 with address 192.168.122.1.
May 4 14:32:07 localhost avahi-daemon[1390]: Withdrawing address record for 192.168.122.1 on virbr0.

May 4 14:32:15 localhost kernel: br0: port 1(eth0) entering forwarding state








eth0 messages


May 4 14:32:04 localhost kernel: r8169: eth0: link up
May 4 14:32:04 localhost kernel: r8169: eth0: link up
May 4 14:32:04 localhost kernel: device eth0 entered promiscuous mode

May 4 14:32:04 localhost avahi-daemon[1390]: Registering new address record for fe80::6ef0:49ff:fe06:47cb on eth0.*.

May 4 14:32:04 localhost kernel: eth0: RTL8168c/8111c at 0xffffc9001166c000, 6c:f0:49:06:47:cb, XID 1c4000c0 IRQ 27

May 4 14:32:04 localhost avahi-daemon[1390]: Registering new address record for fe80::6ef0:49ff:fe06:47cb on eth0.*.

May 4 14:32:15 localhost kernel: br0: port 1(eth0) entering forwarding state

I also had issues with setting up a bridge on FC 12.

Can you post:

1. #brctl show all
2. Contents of your ifcfg-eth0 network script file

Once you reboot, is there any way of restoring networking?

I know that I did a custom script to persist the bridge network scenario on my box to get it to work...will try to locate it and post if i can find it

I was not able to setup a Static connection, I had to setup a DHCP connection to get it to work.

Yes, I would like to see your Script.

Thanks

Apologies - can't seem to find it - I know I found it via a lot of Googling...had to unfortunately clean-install my machine which destroyed a lot of my scripts...will continue searching and PM you if i find it