Re: NM Bridging Support Status

[Pavel Simerda <psimerda redhat com>]

> From: "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.

Thanks, I missed this information.

Pavel