Hugonweb | Virtual Machine Networking

To make a new bridge do:

ip link add <bridgename> type bridge

This command will show all bridges:

ip link show type bridge

Assign an ip address to the bridge (this will be the IP of the host machine)

ip address add <ip address/prefix length> dev <bridgename> scope global

for example:

ip link add testbr0 type bridge
ip address add 10.3.11.254/24 dev testbr0 scope global

Then, if you want to add a host interface to the bridge, you run:

<code bash> ip link set dev <interface> master <bridgename> </code bash>

similarly, use nomaster to remove it from the bridge.

Excellent resource on all iproute2 tools: