[Bug 692647] Re: Network bridge does not come up upon boot

[Peter Matulis]

It appears the lag of a few seconds is enough to prevent other network-
required services from starting.  I have tried with openvpn and
dhcp3-server.  So I need to resort to the same rc.local [1] I had when
the bridge wasn't coming up at all pre-Lucid.  I have tested this on
Maverick only.

[1]:

ifconfig eth0 up
brctl addbr br0
brctl addif br0 eth0
ifconfig br0 up
ip address add 10.153.107.61/24 brd + dev br0
ip route add default via 10.153.107.1 

service openvpn restart

** Changed in: bridge-utils (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => New

** Summary changed:

- Network bridge does not come up upon boot
+ Network bridge too slow to come up upon boot - affecting other services

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: bridge-utils
  
- On a fresh (vmbuilder) install of Maverick (server 64-bit) I cannot get
- a vanilla bridge to come up upon boot using the standard configuration
- method (via /etc/network/interfaces [1]). A manual restart of the
- networking service gets it to work:
- 
- $ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
- 
- I have resorted to putting the above command in /etc/rc.local and that
- works for now.  I would, however, also need to start any network-
- required services there as well.
- 
- I mentioned this issue in bug #687631 but this is a more basic issue and
- it requires a bug of it's own.
+ On a fresh (vmbuilder) install of Maverick (server 64-bit) a vanilla
+ bridge does come up upon boot using the standard configuration method
+ (via /etc/network/interfaces [1]) but it takes too long and this delay
+ prevents other network services from starting.  I have resorted to
+ putting commands in /etc/rc.local and that works for now.
  
  [1]
  
  auto lo
  iface lo inet loopback
  
  auto eth0
  iface eth0 inet manual
  
  auto br0
  iface br0 inet static
-         bridge_ports eth0
-         address 10.153.107.93
-         netmask 255.255.255.0
-         network 10.153.107.0
-         broadcast 10.153.107.255
-         gateway 10.153.107.1
- --- 
+         bridge_ports eth0
+         address 10.153.107.93
+         netmask 255.255.255.0
+         network 10.153.107.0
+         broadcast 10.153.107.255
+         gateway 10.153.107.1
+ ---
  Architecture: amd64
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427.1)
  Package: bridge-utils 1.4-5ubuntu2
  PackageArchitecture: amd64
  ProcEnviron:
-  SHELL=/bin/zsh
-  PATH=(custom, user)
-  LANG=en_US.utf8
+  SHELL=/bin/zsh
+  PATH=(custom, user)
+  LANG=en_US.utf8
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.41-generic 2.6.35.7
  Tags: maverick
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic x86_64
  UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout libvirtd lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare

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Title:
  Network bridge too slow to come up upon boot - affecting other services