How to restart the networking after changing the network configuration?

[Tom H]

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 5:19 PM, Zhengyu Guo <zhengyuguobuaa at gmail.com> wrote:
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> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet manual
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> auto br0
> iface br0 inet static
> address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> network xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> netmask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> broadcast xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> gateway xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> bridge_ports eth0
> bridge_stp off
> bridge_fd 0
> bridge_maxwait 0

You don't need to define eth0 in "/etc/network/interfaces".

>From "man bridge-utils-interfaces":

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The main extension is the bridge_ports option, with it you describe that
the interface is a bridge and what ports does it have. These ports are
the interfaces that are part of the bridge, and they shouldn't have any
stanzas defining them on the interfaces file.
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