Hi! I'm rereading this and I still don't know what kind of example are you asking for, let's see...
> "# The primary network interface > allow-hotplug eth0 > #iface eth0 inet dhcp > iface eth0 inet manual > > auto br0 > iface br0 inet dhcp > bridge_ports eth0 This is a problem, it shouldn't be like that, if you are using eth0 on your bridge it shouldn't have its own section there. The README.Debian file says: If you are configuring the bridges this way you mustn't include the interfaces you use as bridge ports on your /etc/network/interfaces configuration, bridge-utils will take care of configuring the ports for you if needed, bridge-utils won't touch the ports config at all if not needed, if you need to set something up do it using a pre-up option on the bridge interface definition. So... that part shouldn't be part of an example ever, but... > Here if NM is installed, and there's a bridge that needs eth0 (eth0 is not > listed/defined in interfaces with "iface eth0 .."), then it's possible NM > might try to use it. I read here that the problem you are trying to fix with the example is NetworkManager trying to use the eth0 interface, well, I'm not a NetworkManager user, so I wouldn't know how to achieve this :-( I think NetworkManager should state clearly how to mark interfaces so that it doesn't mess with them, but if anybody tells me clearly what I should add to our doc at bridge-utils, I don't have any problem with that. Please note that there is not only NetworkManager but connman (which clearly has NetworkInterfaceBlacklist (setting it to br,eth would probably help with this), we also have wicd, ... so, if I have to add examples for every network manager around... it will be hard for me. > If I recall this package previously had examples that were particularly > helpful and I'm not sure where they went so can someone re-add them back ? > :) I don't remember having any examples removed, and I don't remember anything related to NetworkManager around, like I said, I don't have any problem with adding things to clarify usage, but I need the info as I don't use those products. Regards. -- Manty/BestiaTester -> http://manty.net
