Ethernet bridging weirdness

[Douglas Stanley]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Soren Hansen <soren at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 14-09-2010 21:29, Douglas Stanley wrote:
>> If I type:
>> sudo ifup br1
>> I get: "ifup: interface br1 already configured". But, ifconfig doesn't
>> list either my eth2 or my br1 devices. Also, brctl show doesn't list
>> my second bridge. But, if I edit /var/run/network/ifstate and remove
>> the br1=br1 line, then run "sudo ifup br1", it comes up just fine.
>> Similarly, if I "sudo ifdown br1;sudo ifup br1" that also works.
>
> My guess is that eth2 isn't around at the time br1 has its first config
> attempt. Can you try removing the "auto br1" line and add an
> "allow-hotplug br1" line instead?
>

Nope, no luck.


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