Bug#680094: iproute: ip link can't remove bridge created with brctl

July 03rd, 2012 - 10:10 am ET by sergio | Report spam
Package: iproute
Version: 20120521-3
Severity: normal

% sudo brctl addbr br0
% sudo ip link del br0
RTNETLINK answers: Operation not supported

In the back order works fine:

% sudo ip link add type bridge
% brctl delbr bridge0



Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.4-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages iproute depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-34
ii libdb5.1 5.1.29-5



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#1 Andreas Henriksson
July 03rd, 2012 - 12:10 pm ET | Report spam
tag 680094 + confirmed
thanks

Thanks for your bug report. This is likely something which needs to
be fixed inside the kernel to handle removals consistenly between
the ioctl and netlink interfaces.

One solution is ofcourse for everyone to stop using the old ioctl based
tools (like bridge-utils). :)

Andreas Henriksson



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