Re: Bridging eth0/br0 & NetworkManager - can they coexist?

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:02:57 +0100, Steve Dowe wrote:

(...)

> If I edit /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf and change
> 
> [ifupdown]
> managed=false
> 
> to
> 
> [ifupdown]
> managed=true
> 
> then eth0 and br0 both pick up the same IP address.

Mmm... and what's what you want to bridge? Remember that any bridge 
needs at least two end points.

> This is my current /etc/network/interfaces:
> 
> # The loopback network interface
> auto lo br0
> iface lo inet loopback
> 
> # bridging
> iface br0 inet dhcp
>    bridge_ports eth0
>    bridge_stp off
>    bridge_maxwait 0
>    bridge_fd 0
> 
> 
> I must be missing something simple here.  Could anyone point me in the
> right direction please?  Has anyone got a working config?

There are some bridging samples here:

http://wiki.debian.org/BridgeNetworkConnections#Configuring_bridging_in_.2BAC8-etc.2BAC8-network.2BAC8-interfaces

But shouldn't be better to use the same networking method (ifup or N-M but 
not a mix of them) to configure the interfaces (eth0 and br0)? :-?

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón