Re: NM Bridging Support Status

[Thomas Graf <tgraf redhat com>]

On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 12:07 -0400, Pavel Simerda wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 10:37 -0400, Thomas Goetz wrote:
> > > What is the status of bridging support in Network Manager? Will it
> > > be in an upcoming release? Is it available somewhere to try?
> > 
> > Patches to support bridging have been posted to the mailing list but
> > have not been merged yet.
> 
> AFAIK they were not fully working. The configuration wouldn't work
> on NetworkManager startup, which is crucial for most bridging use
> cases. Have I missed some news?

It's a generic activation related bug that prevents auto activation.
Dan mentioned that he would rework the activation code so I did not
want to invest too much time before that happens.

~Thomas