Re: failure with bridge devices

[Olaf Hering <olaf aepfle de>]

Am 29.09.2015 um 13:21 schrieb Jirka Klimes:
> On Mon, 28 Sep 2015 09:05:02 +0200
> Olaf Hering <olaf aepfle de> wrote:
> > So my questions:
> > Are there known bugs in the cooperation between NM and GNOME?
> I don't think there is a known serious issue.

At least GNOME 3.16 is unable to do anything with bridges, except that
they can be configured.

> > Are bridge devices fully supported? If so, why did NM not bringup
> > onboard before configuring bridge?
> Yes, bridge configurations are supported. You might got confused by
> the fact bringing up a bridge profile does not automatically bring up
> its slaves. Basically, you need to connect all slaves (bridge master
> will be connected as a dependency).
>
> But, as you have found there is a new property to influence the
> behaviour (connection.autoconnect-slaves). When you set it to '1' you
> can activate bridge and its slaves will be activated too.

Why is it off by default? What is the point of that behaviour?


> > Below is the output of what I configured with 'nm-connection-editor'.
> > Why is that output even localized?!
> What is the issue with localization/no-localization?

Its translated at the wrong layer. But after all, they also gave us
~/Schreibtisch, ~/ビデオ, ~/Público and other odd directory names. So it
just makes sense to translate property names as well. I think in the
future we will get /proc/версия too...

Olaf