Bug#992158: Race in ifup maybe related to brctl failure in pre-up of network interface

Hello Santiago Garcia, Dennis, Thank you for your assistance. With hint for the relevant man page "bridge-utils-interfaces" I found the bridge setup working using the configuration auto br0 iface br0 inet static address 192.168.1.1 network 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 bridge_ports no

Bug#992158: Race in ifup maybe related to brctl failure in pre-up of network interface

Hello, Thanks for your swift reply and really helpful information! Dennis Filder writes: > X-Debbugs-CC: Roman Fiedler , Michael Tokarev > > > As stated in the documentation, bridge-utils recently added support > for the "bridge_hw" directive which allows you def

Bug#992158: Race in ifup maybe related to brctl failure in pre-up of network interface

Package: bridge-utils Version: 1.7-1 Severity: serious When running "brctl addbr" and "ip link set [if] address" immediately afterwards, the second command will fail to apply the address change. This is somehow annoying as the MAC would be used in security related filtering and monitoring of the n

Bug#435649: savelog cannot handle absolute rolldir parameter

Package: debianutils Version: debianutils_2.22.1.tar.gz Rolldir is always used relative to the log-file to be rotated but the man page does not mention anything like that: -r use rolldir instead of . to roll files Fixes: * allow absolute rolldir path or * block and write error message w