Package: bridge-utils Version: 1.5-3 Severity: important Me and Andrew Shadura, the ifupdown maintainer, have been looking at the latest bridge-utils upload, and we have several concerns about it.
For a start, directly calling /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/vlan is a huge layering violation. Anyway, nowadays ifupdown directly manages vlans and the vconfig package is deprecated. I am quite concerned that you decided that a complex script should be called for every "auto" interface which appears in the system: this could have a serious impact on systems with many interfaces (I have firewalls with over hundreds of interfaces configured!). I also doubt that this is generally a good idea, even if it were not causing scalability problems, because interfaces marked "auto" should only be configured at boot time. Last but not least, nowadays iproute is able to create bridges by itself, so we should investigate if brctl is still needed. -- ciao, Marco
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