[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] network-manager rant

[Anssi Kolehmainen]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 08:10:05PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Please post your /etc/network/interfaces.

Basically:

iface br0 inet dhcp
	bridge-ports eth0

(+ br1/eth1 for LAN with static IP and he ipv6 tunnel)

Full file is available from: http://aketzu.net/~akolehma/nm-interfaces

D'oh... your parser looks for "bridge_ports" whereas I use "bridge-ports"...
No wonder it doesn't work...

> If I understand you correctly, you defined a bridge via /etc/network/interfaces
> and you want to bring up the bridge ports via network-manager?

What I want is network-manager to do nothing. Some Recommends dependency
pulled network-manager with kde packages so I didn't notice it being
installed. 

> That doesn't sound like a good idea to me.
> network-manager doesn't natively support bridge configurations (yet).
> So if you define a bridge configuration in /etc/network/interfaces, you should
> also configure the bridge_ports via /etc/network/interfaces (ifupdown).
> 
> Otherwise you will get unexpected results and indeed, if you read the changelog,
> this was a change requested in #530335.

Basically the same thing. But bridge detection didn't work and then it just
broke things.

syslog: http://aketzu.net/~akolehma/nm-syslog


Another thing is that network-manager cleared /etc/resolv.conf of all
domain+search entries. It might be good to parse them from there and not just
discard everything. 

The thing is that I don't need (or want) network-manager but because it gets
installed automatically it should behave properly.

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Anssi Kolehmainen
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