Ubuntu
bridge-utils package

bridge-utils all-regex does not capture network devices

Bug #1686058 reported by rainer z
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bridge-utils (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

from bridge-utils-interfaces(5)

bridge-ports
 ...
 Specifying "all" is short for "regex eth.* em.* p[0-9].* noregex" and will get all the ethX and
 biosdevname-format (emX and pX) interfaces added to the bridge.

This will NOT capture device names like enp* and network init will hang.

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No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 17.04
Release: 17.04
Codename: zesty

bridge-utils:
  Installed: 1.5-9ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1.5-9ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1.5-9ubuntu2 500
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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rainer z (rainerz) wrote :

i literally installed the os and the package, threw this in /etc/network/interfaces :

  auto br0
  iface br0 inet dhcp
        bridge_ports all

and rebooted.

Then spent half an hour figuring this out.

affects: xubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) → bridge-utils (Ubuntu)
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Joshua Powers (powersj) wrote :

Hi! Thanks for looking into this and determining what was going on.

Based on the documentation I agree that it is not capturing enp* network devices. However, as the man page says you can add a regex if you want to capture other types of interfaces:

bridge_ports regex enp.*

If you desire to change the behavior of the 'all' wildcard, then I would suggest filing an upstream bug report to change this behavior. I will mark this as a wishlist bug.

Changed in bridge-utils (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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