Bug#454752: Sometimes an interface fails to be added to a bridge because of timing issues

2008-01-13 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
As a workaround I was able to add a while loop waiting for the device to show up in /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/bridge so that bridge-utils would wait for the device to show up before adding it... I was going to implement a couple of things to satisfy the cases I can think of on this area, but I

Bug#454752: Sometimes an interface fails to be added to a bridge because of timing issues

2008-01-13 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
I have already implemented something hopefully on this spirit, it should be on the new 1.4-1 package when it is ready, here goes its description as I have written it for the new man page: bridge_waitport time [ports] wait for a max of time seconds for the specified ports to become

Bug#454752: Sometimes an interface fails to be added to a bridge because of timing issues

2007-12-07 Thread Guido Trotter
Package: bridge-utils Version: 1.2-1 Severity: normal Hi, I found that sometimes (and on some type of machines this tends to happen quite often) a bridge interface comes up without all its ports added because when the net script try to add them the underlying phisical interfaces are not there