Re: "server.conf" ignore-carrier=* Bonding/Bridge DHCP

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 14:06 +0200, poma wrote:
> On 02.04.2014 11:18, Thomas Haller wrote:
> > On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 05:51 +0200, poma wrote:
> > > 'NetworkManager-config-server',
> > > /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/00-server.conf
> > > ...
> > > # Ignore the carrier (cable plugged in) state when attempting to
> > > # activate static-IP connections.
> > > ignore-carrier=*
> > >
> > > This option tends to break the Bonding andor Bridge DHCP setups.
> > > Is it a bug, or a feature?
> >
> >
> > ignore-carrier and DHCP does not go well together because NM will start
> > doing DHCP on an interface that has no carrier (which will fail). 
> >
> > Probably you don't want to install the NetworkManager-config-server
> > package.
> >
> > What is the exact problem you are seeing? Can you send some logs
> > (preferable with DEBUG logging enabled)?
> >
> >
> > Thomas
>
> NetworkManager bridge DHCP & ignore-carrier
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1083521

Thanks, we'll follow up on it there.  I put a couple questions in the
bug.

Dan