[Kimchi-devel] [RFC] Creating linux bridge on Fedora and Debian based systems

[Daniel Henrique Barboza]

On 10/16/2015 05:25 PM, Ramon Medeiros wrote:
> Hi,
>
> to create a bridge on Fedora and Debian systems, it's possible to use 
> brctl (who work in both), but it's not persistent. So, to create a 
> persistent bridge, files must be create in 
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts on Fedora and /etc/network/interfaces 
> on debian based.
>
> Does not exist a tool that handle this issues? If not, how kimchi are 
> dealing when working with this differences between distros?
>
Today, AFAIK, Kimchi does not deal with creating vlan and bridges and so 
on. What kimchi does is check if they exist. This is done by reading and 
parsing /sys/class/net files, which I believe are the same across distros.

But don't take only my work for it - check out 
/plugins/kimchi/netinfo.py and see by yourself.

As for "Does not exist a tool that handle this issues ", I believe this 
is a question that the network guys from Ginger can answer. I'll let 
them come here and answer ......  but I can say in advance that this 
kind of operation will be done in Ginger via ifup and ifdown scripts and 
parsing of the network config files. We considered using Network Manager 
to help us with these tasks, but decided not to because we can't enforce 
the user to have NManager installed.

Hope it helps,


Daniel