> Whenever I need to perform maintenance at the console, I have to remove the > USB dongles, because their casings are wide enough to prevent access to the > VGA connector. Removing the USB dongles tends to collapse the bridge. > Restoring the bridge requires issuing the "sudo invoke-rc.d networking > restart" command.
You haven't added any meaningfull information, I have a USB card on a bridge in use at work and whenever I needed to remove the USB card it worked ok, I suspect it is a problem with the kernel drivers but I'm quite sure it isn't something that bridge-utils should be blamed for. If you still think that it is because of bridge-utils we'd need to collect more data about the status of the net after you remove the usb adaptors, logs and all that kind of stuff. Regards. -- Manty/BestiaTester -> http://manty.net