Hey folks
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
> > Yes, NetworkManager and its gnome client are running. But I remember
> > reading just recently that under Debian it is patched such that it
> > only picks up on auto interfaces. In fact, in the nm-applet I only see
> > br0, not eth2, and when I go into the settings (I've not really looked
> > at it / used it before, just somehow found its way onto my system) it
> > says "br0 - never" under wired connections.
>
> Of all the info you are giving me... the most suspicious part is this, as I
> don't use gnome I don't know how it works or what it does, but I've seen
> several network managers do really weird things. So if you could somehow
> disable this, either by uninstalling that part of gnome or by disabling it
> or not running gnome for some time just to see if things would work that way
> and that way determine if the gnome guys can somehow be responsable for this
> and ask them to help on this.
I was hit by this issue in the past; I think NM ignores the interfaces
which have an iface stanza, not the ones with an "auto" line. The way
I worked around this in the past was to add a manual stanza for eth0 to
my config:
iface eth0 inet manual
with a slightly different stanza you can even bring the interface up
and down with ifup/ifdown if you have any use for this:
iface eth0 inet manual
up ifconfig $IFACE up
down ifconfig $IFACE down
This should be enough to tell NM not to touch the bridge. The true fix
would be for NM to handle bridges too, or at least extend the Debian
plugin to not use interfaces which are in a Debian bridge. I think
bridge support for NM is in the works upstream and might or might not
be in the experimental NM.
Cheers,
--
Loïc Minier
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