Fri, 10 Sep 2010 23:14:41 +0200 <nfs_2...@chubig.net> wrote: > > Good evening, > > I’m using NetworkManager to automatically connect to a number of wifi > networks as well as to ethernet networks at home and in university. > I’m also using the dispatcher to run custom scripts depending on the > network to which the computer just connected. > > Now it would be nice if I could put the wifi interface (Intel > Wireless 4965) and the ethernet interface in one bridge, so that both > devices get the same IP addresses and I could "roam" between wifi and > ethernet by dynamically disabling one of them, with my connections > persisting. > > Is something like this possible? I tried to manually create a bridge > and set up the interfaces, but I seem to be unable to add wlan0 to > the bridge, it just tells me that the operation is “not permitted”.
I understand that the upsteam project NetworkManager is working on adding network bridge support. The last ETA I read was late 2010 from there website [1] ... I was just wondering if anyone knew this was still the case. Network bridging support would be very useful to me for running Xen on my Debian system. [1] http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/ -M
