Interview with NetworkManager developer Dan Williams [LWN.net]

Interview with NetworkManager developer Dan Williams

Posted Feb 26, 2008 17:50 UTC (Tue) by chaneau (subscriber, #6674)
Parent article: Interview with NetworkManager developer Dan Williams

I recently had to configure my network interface with a bridge, so now the applet tells me that I have no network connection at all

As posting this comment shown this is not totally correct ;-)

Here is my /etc/network/interfaces, you would believe that such a simple case would be covered, but apparently it is not.

auto br0

iface br0 inet dhcp
    bridge_ports eth0

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Interview with NetworkManager developer Dan Williams

Posted Feb 26, 2008 22:42 UTC (Tue) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]

Debian alters NM so that if an interface is mentioned in /etc/network/interfaces, NM ignores
it completely, except for when it's a simple 'iface foo inet dhcp' entry.

See /usr/share/doc/network-manager/README.Debian for more information.

Interview with NetworkManager developer Dan Williams

Posted Feb 27, 2008 7:13 UTC (Wed) by chaneau (subscriber, #6674) [Link]

Thanks for the info, I did not know that.