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Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:02:55 -0600
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] net-bridge: rootless bridge support
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To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arndbergmann@googlemail.com>, Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>, Michael Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>, Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Alexander Graf wrote:
> Well I'm not that familiar with the bridging stuff as I'm rather scared
> by it myself, but last time I tried if I
>
> # brctl addif br0 eth0
> # ifconfig br0 up
>
> eth0 stopped working, so I had to stop network manager, assign an IP to
> br0 manually and hope network manager doesn't kick in again. I don't see
> how we can solve that easily, as most people will want to use NM.
>   

netcf will address this properly because it will allow NM to understand 
bridges and provide a common framework for NM to know about when changes 
are made to static networking configuration.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori