Package: bridge-utils Version: 1.5-6 Severity: wishlist My eth0 is configured by dhcp. If I ifup br0 to attach to eth0, and then ifdown br0, eth0 is taken down. Routes on eth0 obtained from dhcp are cleared, and connections are broken. Network is completely down unless manually configured again. I want to leave eth0 intact when br0 detaches from it.
Reading from the source, ifupdown.sh will shut down all attached ports unconditionally when the bridge is shutting down. So even I put post-down ip link set eth0 up in the br0 stanza, it won't recover the routes. There have to be some changes in the source to avoid unconditional takedown and make user able to configure it. I'd love to submit a patch for this, but I don't quite understand the intent before changing it. The man page says "You should not put any lines to configure the interfaces that will be used by the bridge, as this will be setup automatically by the scripts when bringing the bridge up." Maybe it means these ports are kind of "managed"? So will it good if I create an option like bridge_manualports to specify ports not to be managed? Lingzhu Xiang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
