Activate a bridge _without_ networking restart

[plewka]

I have four interfaces and three bridges running and would like to add further interfaces
and bridges.

BUT I have to activate them without stopping service of the running VMs.
Is there a solution to get them run without loosing the vmtab-connections to the VMs.

A short interruption of the interfaces would be no problem, but if I have to remove them
(migrate to other), that's currently a quite bad option.

I could manually use the bridge-tools but do they show up in proxmox's Webinterface
if I try to do so? Any better solution?

Many thanks in advance.

JP


# network interface settings
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface eth0 inet manual

iface eth1 inet manual

iface eth2 inet manual

iface eth4 inet manual

iface eth5 inet manual

auto eth3
iface eth3 inet static
address 192.168.42.2
netmask 255.255.255.0

auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet static
address 10.47.1.2
netmask 255.255.0.0
bridge_ports eth1
bridge_stp off
bridge_fd 0

auto vmbr1
iface vmbr1 inet static
address 172.16.17.2
netmask 255.255.0.0
bridge_ports eth2
bridge_stp off
bridge_fd 0

auto vmbr2
iface vmbr2 inet static
address 10.42.1.2
netmask 255.255.0.0
gateway 10.42.0.1
bridge_ports eth0
bridge_stp off
bridge_fd 0

auto vmbr3
iface vmbr3 inet static
address xx.x.218.203
netmask 255.255.255.0
bridge_ports eth4
bridge_stp off
bridge_fd 0

auto vmbr4
iface vmbr4 inet static
address 172.16.0.2
netmask 255.255.255.0
# bridge_ports eth5
bridge_stp off
bridge_fd 0

============================

brctl show
bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces
vmbr0 8000.0024212d22fc no eth1
vmtab106i0d0
vmtab114i0d0
vmtab143i0d0
vmtab144i0d0
vmtab146i0d0
vmtab151i0d0
vmtab158i0d0
vmbr1 8000.001517e68671 no eth2
vmtab144i1d0
vmtab158i1d0
vmbr2 8000.0024212d22fd no eth0
vmtab106i2d0
vmtab114i2d0
vmtab144i2d0
vmtab151i2d0

 

[udo]

Hi!
Yes, you can add the bridge with the normal commands (brctl addbr|addif; ifconfig vmbrX up) and the bridge apear in the Web-Gui (AFAIK).

Udo