During configuration of bridge interface on SolusVM node network restart fails: bridge support not available: brctl not found

Symptoms

During configuration of the bridged network on SolusVM node network restart fails:

# service network restart
ERROR : [/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-br0] Bridge support not available: brctl not found

Cause

The necessary bridge-utils package is not installed:

# rpm -q bridge-utils
package bridge-utils is not installed

Resolution

1. Connect to the slave node over SSH.

2. Install bridge-utils package:

   # yum install bridge-utils -y