NetworkManager bridging features available but not usable?

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Jun 13 21:57:21 UTC 2012


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.
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