[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] network-manager rant

[Michael Biebl]

On 12.01.2011 20:39, Anssi Kolehmainen wrote:
> 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...

Well, the bridge-utils-interfaces man page clearly says that this option is
called bridge_ports. Go figure.

>> 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. 

If you use bridge_ports, as documented, nm should not touch those interfaces.


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