Bug#818978: New issues with bridges in Debian Jessie/Stretch

[Michael Biebl]

Am 28.02.2017 um 15:02 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Am 28.02.2017 um 14:21 schrieb Maciej Delmanowski:
>> Package: systemd
>> Version: 215-17+deb8u6
>> Severity: important
>> Tags: jessie stretch
>>
>> It seems that the latest changes in the 'systemd' package result in issues
>> with configuration of network bridges. I can reproduce this issue reliably on
>> Debian Jessie KVM guest, and most likely on Debian Stretch KVM guest (haven't
>> tried repeatedly yet).
>>
>> I have created a new KVM-based virtual machine and installed Debian Jessie, as
>> well as Debian Stretch on it. Next, I applied this common network
>> configuration in '/etc/network/interfaces':
> 
> ..
> 
>>     allow-hotplug br0
> 
> Using allow-hotplug for bridge interfaces is not a good idea. You really
> should use that for physical hardware only, which actually is "plugged in".
> 
> If you want to treat it like hotplugged hardware, you have to create the
> interfaces yourself (using brctl), as you already noted.
> 
> So, this is really a misconfiguration imho.
> 
> Use "auto br0" and you should be fine.
> 
> If CCed the ifupdown maintainer, just in case he disagrees with my
> justification for closing this bug report.

So this wasn't actually a new bug report, but a reply to an archived
one. So the -done message bounced.


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