Fedora 21: manage a bridge device with nmcli.

Here are logs when adding a bridge with nmcli.

I will create a bridge named ovsbr10.

before adding the bridge, confirm ovsbr10 does not exit.

[root@f21 ~]# ip addr show | grep ovsbr10 [root@f21 ~]#

add a connection profile for the bridge “ovsbr10”.

please note that the connection profile name is “bridge-ovsbr10”.

[root@f21 ~]# nmcli con add type bridge ifname ovsbr10 Connection 'bridge-ovsbr10' (df26c72e-a7f4-4a2a-b91a-c53e27b007b0) successfully added. [root@f21 ~]# nmcli c show | grep ovsbr bridge-ovsbr10           df26c72e-a7f4-4a2a-b91a-c53e27b007b0  bridge          --

add an IP to that connection profile.

[root@f21 ~]# nmcli c modify bridge-ovsbr10 ipv4.method manual ipv4.addresses "192.168.30.1/24"

[root@f21 ~]# nmcli --pretty connection show bridge-ovsbr10 ===============================================================================                  Connection profile details (bridge-ovsbr10) =============================================================================== connection.id:                          bridge-ovsbr10 connection.uuid:                        df26c72e-a7f4-4a2a-b91a-c53e27b007b0 connection.interface-name:              ovsbr10 connection.type:                        bridge connection.autoconnect:                 yes connection.timestamp:                   0 connection.read-only:                   no connection.permissions:                  connection.zone:                        -- connection.master:                      -- connection.slave-type:                  -- connection.secondaries:                  connection.gateway-ping-timeout:        0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ipv4.method:                            manual ipv4.dns:                                ipv4.dns-search:                         ipv4.addresses:                         { ip = 192.168.30.1/24, gw = 0.0.0.0 } ipv4.routes:                             ipv4.ignore-auto-routes:                no

bring up the bridge.

[root@f21 ~]# nmcli c up bridge-ovsbr10 Connection successfully activated (D-Bus active path: /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/9) [root@f21 ~]# [root@f21 ~]# ip addr show | grep ovsbr10 21: ovsbr10: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN group default    inet 192.168.30.1/24 brd 192.168.30.255 scope global ovsbr10 [root@f21 ~]#