Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote:
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.