Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] net-bridge: rootless bridge support for qemu

[Anthony Liguori]

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