[Bug 687631] Re: bridge is configured too late (for openvpn and openntpd at least)

[Stéphane Graber]

Could you try on an up to date 11.10 or 12.04 system? I'd think some of
the timing improvements in the network scripts over the past two cycles
should have solved most if not all of that issue.

** Changed in: bridge-utils (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Incomplete

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Title:
  bridge is configured too late (for openvpn and openntpd at least)

Status in “bridge-utils” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: bridge-utils

  I have a bridge interface specified in /etc/network/interfaces, but
  when the machine starts up the bridge device is not available early
  enough -- other packages (specifically OpenVPN and OpenNTPd) try to
  bind to the requested interface, but fail.

  The OpenVPN listen interface is specified by IP address only, not
  device name. The OpenNTPd interface is "*". OpenSSH works just fine,
  and does not have any device specified in its config; but there are
  syslog comments saying the ssh is terminating, so perhaps there is a
  retry somewhere that is masking this issue.

  ----

  /etc/network/interfaces (NB my two main interfaces are renamed by udev
  to be /dev/officenet and /dev/prodnet):-

  root at moonshine:/etc/ssh# cat /etc/network/interfaces 
  # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
  # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

  # The loopback network interface
  auto lo
  iface lo inet loopback

  # The bridge network that will hold officenet and openVPN clients
  auto officebr
  iface officebr inet static
          address 10.1.1.2
          network 10.1.1.0
          netmask 255.255.255.0
          gateway 10.1.1.1
          bridge_ports officenet tap0
          bridge_fd 9
          bridge_hello 2
          bridge_maxage 12
          bridge_stp off

  
  # The production network
  auto prodnet
  iface prodnet inet static
          address 10.90.1.1
          netmask 255.255.255.0

  ----

  Apport says :-

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Dec  9 14:35:47 2010
  Dependencies:
   coreutils 7.4-2ubuntu3
   debconf 1.5.28ubuntu4
   debconf-i18n 1.5.28ubuntu4
   dpkg 1.15.5.6ubuntu4.4
   findutils 4.4.2-1ubuntu1
   gcc-4.4-base 4.4.3-4ubuntu5
   libacl1 2.2.49-2
   libattr1 1:2.4.44-1
   libc-bin 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.5
   libc6 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.5
   libgcc1 1:4.4.3-4ubuntu5
   liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-6
   libselinux1 2.0.89-4
   libstdc++6 4.4.3-4ubuntu5
   libtext-charwidth-perl 0.04-6
   libtext-iconv-perl 1.7-2
   libtext-wrapi18n-perl 0.06-7
   lzma 4.43-14ubuntu2
   perl-base 5.10.1-8ubuntu2
   tzdata 2010o-0ubuntu0.10.04
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.2)
  Package: bridge-utils 1.4-5ubuntu2
  PackageArchitecture: amd64
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-26.48-server 2.6.32.24+drm33.11
  SourcePackage: bridge-utils
  Tags: lucid
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-26-server x86_64

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