Bug#868220: Bug#979963: bridge-utils: bridge often collapses when removing USB WiFi dongle

2021-02-24 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
ke 24. helmik. 2021 klo 21.04 Guus Sliepen (g...@debian.org) kirjoitti: > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 03:04:18PM +0100, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > > > > Looking at the debdiff, I notice that upstream considers this package > > > as deprecated and recommends using the 'bridge' command from ipro

Bug#868220: Bug#979963: bridge-utils: bridge often collapses when removing USB WiFi dongle

2021-02-24 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 03:04:18PM +0100, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > > Looking at the debdiff, I notice that upstream considers this package > > as deprecated and recommends using the 'bridge' command from iproute2. > > Is there any plan to migrate bridge-utils-interfaces to use this? > >

Bug#868220: Bug#979963: bridge-utils: bridge often collapses when removing USB WiFi dongle

2021-02-24 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
> Looking at the debdiff, I notice that upstream considers this package > as deprecated and recommends using the 'bridge' command from iproute2. > Is there any plan to migrate bridge-utils-interfaces to use this? Well, kind of, I mean, on some of the bugs, at least on #868220, we've have talked ab

Bug#979963: bridge-utils: bridge often collapses when removing USB WiFi dongle

2021-02-24 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
ke 24. helmik. 2021 klo 12.03 Santiago Garcia Mantinan (ma...@debian.org) kirjoitti: > > > Noted. There's indeed too many patches for me to keep track of. At > > some point, I lose track of what you need to validate each one. > > Well, after some more testing I uploaded the latest versions to unsta

Bug#979963: bridge-utils: bridge often collapses when removing USB WiFi dongle

2021-02-24 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
> Noted. There's indeed too many patches for me to keep track of. At > some point, I lose track of what you need to validate each one. Well, after some more testing I uploaded the latest versions to unstable, so you don't need to access salsa as unstable is now in sync with the git repository. I'

Bug#979963: bridge-utils: bridge often collapses when removing USB WiFi dongle

2021-02-23 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
ti 23. helmik. 2021 klo 15.18 Santiago Garcia Mantinan (ma...@debian.org) kirjoitti: > > > Like I have just said on the other bug report (looks like we have the same > > setup on both bugs) I need to know how the system looks after the setup to > > find what is wrong or different to mine here, "ip

Bug#979963: bridge-utils: bridge often collapses when removing USB WiFi dongle

2021-02-23 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
> Like I have just said on the other bug report (looks like we have the same > setup on both bugs) I need to know how the system looks after the setup to > find what is wrong or different to mine here, "ip a" output would solve some > of my doubts. I don't know if you could test all the patches I

Bug#979963: bridge-utils: bridge often collapses when removing USB WiFi dongle

2021-01-30 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
> I HAVE set bridge_hw to a static device. That's what I described. Like I have just said on the other bug report (looks like we have the same setup on both bugs) I need to know how the system looks after the setup to find what is wrong or different to mine here, "ip a" output would solve some of

Bug#979963: bridge-utils: bridge often collapses when removing USB WiFi dongle

2021-01-30 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
I HAVE set bridge_hw to a static device. That's what I described. Martin-Éric la 30. tammik. 2021 klo 14.13 Santiago Garcia Mantinan (ma...@debian.org) kirjoitti: > > Hi again! > > > What I DO notice is that because the bridge is stupid enough to use the > > MAC address of a removable device to b

Bug#979963: bridge-utils: bridge often collapses when removing USB WiFi dongle

2021-01-30 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi again! > What I DO notice is that because the bridge is stupid enough to use the > MAC address of a removable device to build the EUI64 address for fe80 > local link (despite bridge_hw specifying the MAC address of a fixed > device), disconnecting that removable device collapses the bridge. I'

Bug#979963: bridge-utils: bridge often collapses when removing USB WiFi dongle

2021-01-28 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
Package: bridge-utils Version: 1.6-5+b1 Followup-For: Bug #979963 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I wouldn't know whether it's because of the kernel driver or because of bridge-utils. What I DO notice is that because the bridge is stupid enough to use the MAC address of a remov

Bug#979963: bridge-utils: bridge often collapses when removing USB WiFi dongle

2021-01-15 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
> 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 networ

Bug#979963: bridge-utils: bridge often collapses when removing USB WiFi dongle

2021-01-12 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
Package: bridge-utils Version: 1.6-2 Severity: important -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 My router bridges 2 Ethernet cards and a couple of USB dongles configured as WiFi hostspots with hostapd. Whenever I need to perform maintenance at the console, I have to remove the USB don