la 30. tammik. 2021 klo 17.42 Santiago Garcia Mantinan (ma...@debian.org) kirjoitti: > BTW: one thing I do on this kind of hotplug setup is allow hotplug on > bridge-utils, which means setting it to yes on /etc/default/bridge-utils > This allows me to plug in and out ethernet devices without needing to > declare them or anything, I know this doesn't work for wifi devices, which > need hostapd.
Sure enough, enabling this option in /etc/default/bridge-utils fixed the issue, at least as far as being able to hotplug and remove those WiFi dongles without the bridge collapsing. Thanks! :-) Was there any particular reason for not enabling hotplug out of the box? Btw, the discrepancy in behavior explained in Bug#980752 remains. With BRIDGE_HOTPLUG=yes, upon startup, the WiFI dongles are brought up after the fixed interfaces and they don't have any IPv6 EUI64 local link (fe80) separate from the one on the bridge. However, if they are plugged in after the bridge is already up, fe80 addresses are generated for each of the dongles. As a user, I wouldn't know which one of ifupdown or bridge-utils is at cause. Martin-Éric
