NetworkManager bridging features available but not usable?

[Stijn Hoop]

Hey,

On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:57:21 -0700
Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 16:52 -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> > On 06/13/2012 12:03 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > So it sounds like, right now, what you can do is take an existing
> > > bridged config, drop NM_CONTROLLED=no from the ifcfg files,
> > > enable the NM service if necessary, and then see if NM takes over
> > > properly. It doesn't seem to be explicitly stated, but reading
> > > between the lines, the UI stuff isn't done yet.
> > > 
> > 
> > I just tried this, and NetworkManager didn't bring up either the
> > physical interface or the bridge.  Here are ifcfg-eth0 and
> > ifcfg-br0:
> > 
> > DEVICE=eth0
> > ONBOOT=yes
> > TYPE=Ethernet
> > IPV6INIT=no
> > HWADDR=00:22:4d:4f:c7:ed
> > BRIDGE=br0
> > #NM_CONTROLLED=no
> > 
> > IPADDR=172.31.250.1
> > GATEWAY=172.31.250.254
> > NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> > DEVICE=br0
> > ONBOOT=yes
> > TYPE=Bridge
> > IPV6INIT=no
> > DELAY=0
> > #NM_CONTROLLED=no
> > 
> > Anyone have any ideas?
> 
> Not here. Might be worth poking Dan directly by email or on IRC
> (dcbw). He may be able to clarify.

Did anyone do this yet? If not, what is Dan's email adress? I'm trying
this on F-17 and have the same experience -- it's simply not doing
anything.

--Stijn