From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040518 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: I have configured a bridge as follows: ifcfg-eth0: DEVICE=eth0 ONBOOT=yes TYPE=Ethernet BRIDGE=br0 ifcfg-wlan0: DEVICE=wlan0 ONBOOT=yes TYPE=Wireless BRIDGE=br0 ESSID=MyESSID MODE=Managed RATE=Auto ifcfg-br0: DEVICE=br0 ONBOOT=yes TYPE=Bridge BOOTPROTO=dhcp On running 'service network restart' the bridge is brought up and an attempt is made to get an address for it. Running 'brctl show' reveals that the bridge is configured, but has no interfaces yet. This is obviously not the correct behavior. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): initscripts-7.42.2-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Configure a bridge using the BRIDGE= and TYPE=Bridge directives in ifcfg-* 2. Set the bridge device to get it's address by DHCP w/ BOOTPROTO=dhcp 3. Restart network. Actual Results: Scripts are unable to get an address for the bridge because the bridge has no interfaces when dhclient is run. Expected Results: Bridge should be set up (with all appropriate interfaces) before running dhclient. Additional info: I realize this breaks the paradigm of each device being configured independant of other devices, but
Created attachment 102408 [details] fixes to ifdown, ifup, and network Here's a patch to /sbin/ifdown, /sbin/ifup, and /etc/init.d/network that fixes this problem for me. Bridge devices are now brought up after normal devices and shut down before them. To make this work, a bridge is addbr'd right before the first addif (if it doesn't exist) and delbr'd right after the last delif (if there are no more ports).
Created attachment 105220 [details] Better patch, works with wireless This fixes another bug: bridged wireless devices weren't getting initialized properly.
Fixed in initscripts-8.32-1. Thanks for the patch!