Bug#725786: bridge-utils: Improving the bridge_hw option in /etc/network/interfaces

2014-03-11 Thread Leoš Bitto
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Bug#725786: bridge-utils: Improving the bridge_hw option in /etc/network/interfaces

2013-12-22 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
> B) > # ip link add brX type bridge > # ip link set brX address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX > Witch B) the bridge seems to works fine, at least in simple scenarios > (I did no extensive testing). What kernel were you using? > tracing this problem please let me know. As for my “special” problem, > I will

Bug#725786: bridge-utils: Improving the bridge_hw option in /etc/network/interfaces

2013-12-19 Thread Lukas Schwaighofer
On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 01:36:41 +0100 Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > First tests went really wrong. > > I have this setup: > > auto br0 > iface br0 inet static > address X.X.X.X > netmask 255.255.255.0 > bridge_ports all > bridge_fd 2 > bridge_stp on >

Bug#725786: bridge-utils: Improving the bridge_hw option in /etc/network/interfaces

2013-12-17 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
> I already knew all this, but I really don't like a tool for everything, so I > wasn't willing to do this change, but I have just changed my mind and I see > that this may be the right time to do the change, so we'll give this a > chance and if it doesn't work we'll go back to the old way. > > Th

Bug#725786: bridge-utils: Improving the bridge_hw option in /etc/network/interfaces

2013-12-17 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
On Dec 08 2013, Lukas Schwaighofer wrote: > After doing some more reading I learned that brctl uses ioctl (just > like ifconfig) and will probably be deprecated at some point in the > (far away) future. A lot bridge functionality is available within the > version of the iproute2 package available i

Bug#725786: bridge-utils: Improving the bridge_hw option in /etc/network/interfaces

2013-12-08 Thread Lukas Schwaighofer
Hi, On Sun, 8 Dec 2013 10:37:14 +0100 Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > So... the question would be... on your setup do you have a network > card attached? I have no interface attached to the bridge (as you can see from my commands I didn't use any »ip link set … master br2« or add »brctl addif

Bug#725786: bridge-utils: Improving the bridge_hw option in /etc/network/interfaces

2013-12-08 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi again. > Unfortunately it doesn't, see the output below: Well, I read your mail after having a new version written with my suggestion and I'm not really sure your testings apply to a "real" bridge. I mean... I have tested it and ended with a working bridge. The difference here may be that I ha

Bug#725786: bridge-utils: Improving the bridge_hw option in /etc/network/interfaces

2013-12-07 Thread Lukas Schwaighofer
Hi, thank you for looking into this! Sorry for not responding to your previous mail (I really didn't have anything to add at that point though). On Sat, 7 Dec 2013 01:35:37 +0100 Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > While I was investigating your suggestion I realised that if I set > the hw addres

Bug#725786: bridge-utils: Improving the bridge_hw option in /etc/network/interfaces

2013-12-06 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi! > I came into the situation where I wanted to assign a specific hw address > to a bridge device. However, using the bridge_hw option didn't work for > me as I wasn't adding any interfaces to the bridge (the bridge is used > for attaching virtualbox VMs which somehow magically work without `br

Bug#725786: bridge-utils: Improving the bridge_hw option in /etc/network/interfaces

2013-11-16 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi! Thanks for your bug report. Your report reminds me of a conversation with a fellow Debian folk that was asking me if bridge-utils were needed at all now that iproute has the power of creating bridges. I still think we need bridge-utils, but... the question here is... should we create the int

Bug#725786: bridge-utils: Improving the bridge_hw option in /etc/network/interfaces

2013-10-08 Thread Lukas Schwaighofer
Package: bridge-utils Version: 1.5-6 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, I came into the situation where I wanted to assign a specific hw address to a bridge device. However, using the bridge_hw option didn't work for me as I wasn't adding any interfaces to the bridge (the bridge i