It seemed the obvious change would be to: Changing the bridge ip address from 192.168.3.1 to 192.168.1.2 as shown in the network file below: config interface 'lan' option ifname 'eth0' option type 'bridge' option proto 'static' option ipaddr '192.168.1.2' option netmask '255.255.255.0' option ip6assign '60' And it was assigned to the bridge. /# ifconfig -a br-lan Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 40:A3:6B:C1:19:F3 inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::42a3:6bff:fec1:xxxx/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:227 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:35189 (34.3 KiB) TX bytes:6687 (6.5 KiB) The Omega did not receive IP address from the dhcp server. Oddly when the section is set to ip address is 192.168.3.1, the Omega acts as the dhcp server and assigns Omega address from 192.168.3.0/24?