On Thu, August 28, 2014 10:59 am, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Ticket #5391 suggests using the ip command for bridge functions in the
> services part of the boot script. For instance, it suggests changing
>
> brctl addbr ${1}
>
> to
>
> ip link add name ${1} type bridge ip link set dev ${1} up ===============
> Changing
>
>
> brctl stp ${1} on
>
> to
>
> echo 1 > /sys/class/net/${1}/bridge/stp_state ==============
> Changing
>
>
> brctl delif ${1} ${I}
>
> to
>
> ip link set ${I} nomaster ==============
> Cahnging
>
>
> brctl delbr ${1}
>
> to
>
> ip link delete ${1} =============
>
>
> I can see both advantages and disadvantages to this. For advantages, it
> means that the bridge-utils package is not needed.
>
> For disadvantages, the new commands are slightly more complex. We also
> only install the bridge service script in the bridge-utils section of the
> book, so that would need to be moved.
>
> The only place we actually use a bridge is with qemu and that
> specifically calls brctl in the network scripts.
>
> We could move the modified bridge service to the LFS bootscripts and
> always install it.
>
> My preference is to leave things as they are. I don't see much
> advantage to dropping bridge-utils. It's a very fast build (2 seconds in
> my log) and provides a pretty clear manpage. What we have works, and the
> changes needed would be fairly invasive.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
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Hello Bruce,
Personally I would say to leave bridge utils alone. Despite the persoanal
bent of the reporter the developers of bridge_utils have named it that way
because it IS a tool used to create a bridge.
I have used it extensively in the past without any problems. Why change
boot scripts etc just because of one person?
If they want to use something else then thats up to them. Not everyone
does use a bridge anyway. I used it for virtubox on both Ubuntu and
Debian.
Quite possibly there are a number of other emulators that would make use
of that very useful tool.
Regards,
Christopher.
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