It appears the lag of a few seconds is enough to prevent other network- required services from starting. I have tried with openvpn and dhcp3-server. So I need to resort to the same rc.local [1] I had when the bridge wasn't coming up at all pre-Lucid. I have tested this on Maverick only.
[1]: ifconfig eth0 up brctl addbr br0 brctl addif br0 eth0 ifconfig br0 up ip address add 10.153.107.61/24 brd + dev br0 ip route add default via 10.153.107.1 service openvpn restart ** Changed in: bridge-utils (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New ** Summary changed: - Network bridge does not come up upon boot + Network bridge too slow to come up upon boot - affecting other services ** Description changed: Binary package hint: bridge-utils - On a fresh (vmbuilder) install of Maverick (server 64-bit) I cannot get - a vanilla bridge to come up upon boot using the standard configuration - method (via /etc/network/interfaces [1]). A manual restart of the - networking service gets it to work: - - $ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart - - I have resorted to putting the above command in /etc/rc.local and that - works for now. I would, however, also need to start any network- - required services there as well. - - I mentioned this issue in bug #687631 but this is a more basic issue and - it requires a bug of it's own. + On a fresh (vmbuilder) install of Maverick (server 64-bit) a vanilla + bridge does come up upon boot using the standard configuration method + (via /etc/network/interfaces [1]) but it takes too long and this delay + prevents other network services from starting. I have resorted to + putting commands in /etc/rc.local and that works for now. [1] auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet manual auto br0 iface br0 inet static - bridge_ports eth0 - address 10.153.107.93 - netmask 255.255.255.0 - network 10.153.107.0 - broadcast 10.153.107.255 - gateway 10.153.107.1 - --- + bridge_ports eth0 + address 10.153.107.93 + netmask 255.255.255.0 + network 10.153.107.0 + broadcast 10.153.107.255 + gateway 10.153.107.1 + --- Architecture: amd64 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427.1) Package: bridge-utils 1.4-5ubuntu2 PackageArchitecture: amd64 ProcEnviron: - SHELL=/bin/zsh - PATH=(custom, user) - LANG=en_US.utf8 + SHELL=/bin/zsh + PATH=(custom, user) + LANG=en_US.utf8 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.41-generic 2.6.35.7 Tags: maverick Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic x86_64 UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout libvirtd lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to bridge-utils in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/692647 Title: Network bridge too slow to come up upon boot - affecting other services -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs