Linux : Device br0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.

By | January 4, 2013

You might encountered the following message after creating a bridge interface and try to bring it up on RHEL/CentOS Linux :

ifup br0
Device br0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.

 

The common error in such case is usually because you mistype the ” TYPE= ” parameter, bridge must start with a capital ” B ” :

TYPE=Bridge

The wrong way :

TYPE=bridge