@mWare @karinjiri @dvl
ix1 in my case is the physical link, which could go down. This is where some people want the IP address to be. Some want it directly on bridge0. But it's technically not supposed to be on either; bridge is not really an "interface", and ix1 would be a "switch port" which you don't put an IP address on -- you put it on the device *connected* to that switch port.
So then with epair you fake a switch port and a device on the other end of this virtual ethernet cable as I like to think of it.
hope that makes sense.
ix1 in my case is the physical link, which could go down. This is where some people want the IP address to be. Some want it directly on bridge0. But it's technically not supposed to be on either; bridge is not really an "interface", and ix1 would be a "switch port" which you don't put an IP address on -- you put it on the device *connected* to that switch port.
So then with epair you fake a switch port and a device on the other end of this virtual ethernet cable as I like to think of it.
hope that makes sense.
