Creating a bridge shouldn't require a slave device
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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network-manager-applet (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Not all bridging scenario require to have a slave device. NM should permit creating bridges for that scenario. Please consider this as a wishlist item.
Thanks for adding bridge support to NM!
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu Trusty Tahr (development branch)
Release: 14.04
$ apt-cache policy network-
network-
Installed: 0.9.8.4-1ubuntu2
Candidate: 0.9.8.4-1ubuntu2
Version table:
*** 0.9.8.4-1ubuntu2 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: network-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-5-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Jan 31 11:06:31 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-26 (4 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140124)
NetworkManager.
[main]
NetworkingEnab
WirelessEnable
WWANEnabled=true
WimaxEnabled=true
RfKill:
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
SourcePackage: network-
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
nmcli-con:
NAME UUID TYPE TIMESTAMP TIMESTAMP-REAL AUTOCONNECT READONLY DBUS-PATH
Wired connection 1 124acb71-
OpenWrt5 869128ee-
OpenWrt 280293db-
nmcli-dev:
DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH
wlan0 802-11-wireless connected /org/freedeskto
eth0 802-3-ethernet unavailable /org/freedeskto
nmcli-nm:
RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN
running 0.9.8.8 connected enabled enabled enabled enabled disabled