Re: hotpluggable member of a bridge
Hi.
On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 16:48:02 +0100
Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote:
> Le 05/01/2017 à 22:36, Reco a écrit :
> >
> > Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote:
> >
> >>> Bridged interfaces retain their MACs, so they would get different IPv6
> >>> ULAs, which are provided by radvd from the different host.
> >>
> >> Not if they are bridged before they are brought UP
> >
> > I'm not that familiar with openvswitch to make claims about the order
> > in which an interface brought up and bridged.
> >
> > If you have such knowledge then feel free to share it with the list
> > please.
>
> Actually I had in mind the behaviour of Linux bridge, not openvswitch. I
> have no knowledge nor experience with openvswitch. However, I can see
> that the openvswitch package adds a script in /etc/network/if-pre-up.d,
> so it is likely that the interface is bridged before it is brought up.
Seems to be the case with openvswitch indeed. I conclude that from
(failed) experiment involving openvswitch bridge, hostapd, wireless
interface and a plain ethernet one. hostapd was unoperational unless I
forced the bugger to start up first, and add an interface to the
bridge second.
Reco
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