How to install and use brctl on Linux?

1 year ago
Benjamin Taylor
1 minute

The method to install the brctl tool is by installing the bridge-utils package. In most Linux distributions, you can install the bridge-utils package using a package management tool.

You can install bridge-utils on Debian/Ubuntu systems using the following command:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bridge-utils

On CentOS/RHEL systems, you can install bridge-utils by using the following command:

sudo yum install bridge-utils

Once the installation is complete, you can use the ‘brctl’ command to manage Linux network bridging. Here are some common uses of the ‘brctl’ command:

  1. Set up a new network bridge.
sudo brctl addbr br0
  1. Add a physical network card to a network bridge.
sudo brctl addif br0 eth0
  1. Remove a physical network card from bridging.
sudo brctl delif br0 eth0
  1. Remove a network bridge.
sudo brctl delbr br0

The above are some basic usage of the brctl command. You can use the “man brctl” command to view more detailed usage and options of the brctl command.

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