Network bridging

Hardware
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My HA is running on a 4 ports intel micro PC. I want to bridge all the ports to create a simple network switch (hub). Is the HA OS allow this operation? If yes, please direct me to the information.

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What install method?

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HAOS is based on Alpine Linux.

This should get you started: Bridge - Alpine Linux

Fair warning: I’ve not tried this – I use purpose-built switching and routing devices.

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How do I get root access to the HA? Terminal?

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There is a long thread around here with someone that had a similar idea wanting to use a 12-port NUC running HAOS as a switch. Conclusion: Don’t.

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Put HA on different hardware and install opnsense on the pc with 4 ports

Why do you want to bridge networks using HA?

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No it is not.

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nickrout is correct. HA OS is built on buildroot, a Linux OS for embedded systems. Only the containers are built on Alpine Linux.

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Here is the long thread that odwide mentioned.

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Odd that you’d build the same OS on two bases and call it the same thing.
I was relying on this from my HAOS installation (which was an official deployed OVA):

[core-ssh ~]$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Alpine Linux"
ID=alpine
VERSION_ID=3.19.1
PRETTY_NAME="Alpine Linux v3.19"
HOME_URL="https://alpinelinux.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues"

So I guess I need to revise that statement and say that some HAOS platforms are built on Alpine Linux, @nickrout

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You were probably in the HA container, and not in the OS itself. The SSH add-ons just give access to the HA container, for HA OS SSH access you need port 22222

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Thanks, that is almost certainly the case. And does explain the RFC1918 address (that is not on my network’s subnet) assigned on eth0. I figured there were some shenanigans, but didn’t think there’d be a container from a different OS running inside the VM that I deployed.

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The OS is buildroot, the docker container for home assistant core is Alpine.

Other containers for add-ons are often built on Alpine, but others are on debian or other os bases. This is docker after all.

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Any way to find out the host running the docker for the HA?

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Haos runs docker, in fact that’s it’s main purpose.

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