Bug 246413 - RFE: NetworkManager should not touch bridge interfaces
Summary: RFE: NetworkManager should not touch bridge interfaces
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: NetworkManager
Version: 7
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Dan Williams
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-07-02 02:20 UTC by Jonathan Steffan
Modified: 2008-04-10 20:36 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: 0.6.5
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2008-04-10 20:36:09 UTC
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Description Jonathan Steffan 2007-07-02 02:20:42 UTC
Description of problem:
I have a bridge setup for KVM. eth0 and vmnetX are in br0. Well, I like using NM
for all my VPN stuff, but it refuses to leave eth0 alone and insists on running
dhclient for me.

Version Release number of selected component (if applicable):
NetworkManager-0.6.5-6.fc7


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a bridge
2. Add interface to bridge, assign IP to bridge
3. Start NM
4. Watch your bridge members get managed by NM
  
Actual results:
NM reconfigures my interface(s) when I don't want it to.

Expected results:
NM leaves my bridge interfaces alone.

Additional info:
I've tried adding IPADDR=0.0.0.0 to eth0 to try and trick NM into thinking to
leave the interface alone. No go.

Comment 1 Christopher Aillon 2007-07-02 15:06:42 UTC
you want NM_CONTROLLED=no in your sysconfig interface file

Comment 2 Jonathan Steffan 2007-07-02 16:44:39 UTC
Thanks! Where is this documented? I'm not seeing it in the initscripts
documentation. Also, when I set NM_CONTROLLED=no for eth0, I am unable to use NM
for vpn anyways.

Comment 3 Dan Williams 2008-04-10 20:36:09 UTC
It's not in the initscripts for F7, it's read only by NetworkManager there.


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