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Where to find reference on exact commands?

The bridge-utils-interface man pages describe the options.

Create and link to article covering fundamental bridging btw existing network interface... the original use of a bridge.

Creating a Simple Bridge

I'm frankly still fuzzy on what's happening here. But this bridge works for my LXD host to allow my containers to interface with my hosts network directly.

Here is the default dhcp network interface...

Here is the network interface with modifications to make it static...

Here is we've added a bridge br0 that interfaces with the host's primary network card ens3,

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto br0
iface br0 inet static
    address 192.168.0.50
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    gateway 192.168.0.1
    dns-nameservers 192.168.0.1
    bridge-ports ens3
    bridge-stp off

Bridge File

Common to to all,

auto br0
iface br0 inet dhcp # or static but keeping simple for now


    # Required
    bridge_ports eth0 # Binds the bridge to your existing ethernet
    bridge_fd
0    # Looks #to ?be options
    bridge_maxwait 0
  # Looks tobridge_stp beoff
options     bridge_maxwaitfd 0     bridge_stp off # ?

Reference

Differences between articles,

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