/etc/init.d/networking needs to be restarted

[Tom H]

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 4:17 AM, scar <scar at drigon.com> wrote:
>> Tom H @ 07/31/2011 03:44 AM:
>>>
>>> You should have "iface eth0 inet manual" and not "iface eth0 inet dhcp".
>>
>> OK after changing that and restarting the system, i didn't have to
>> restart networking, so maybe that fixed it!
>
> I hope so. It should!

What I don't understand in your setup is that if I set "iface eth0
inet dhcp", eth0 gets the same address as br0, whereas your eth0
didn't get an address.