Ethernet bridging weirdness

[Serge E. Hallyn]

Quoting Douglas Stanley (douglas.m.stanley at gmail.com):
> True, it is manual, but it's a bridge. I can't seem to find it now,
> but that's precisely how it was supposed to be configured, according
> to the documentation I was going by (I think it was one of the KVM
> oriented guides). And, no, it's not showing up when I do a brctl show
> on this one server (it shows up fine on the other *identical* server).

How does it show up?  'ifconfig -a', 'ifconfig', and 'brctl show' output?

Mind you think I've had this happen to me before, and as someone mentioned
earlier I ended up having to apt-get remove network-manager.  Oh, maybe
what I actually did was to add 'ifdown eth0; ifdown br0' or something
like that to /etc/init/network-interface.conf.  It was a few months ago,
and I just needed to get it working...

-serge