I have never used Network Manager because it always sucked and I didn't need it on my desktop computer anyway. I use port aggregation a.k.a. bonding which NM didn't support in the past. I recently added bridging to the mix also because I'm going to start using a VPN.
Now we have a new NM widget that seems to support bonding and bridging, but I'm at a loss on how to get it to recognize my setup. I'd rather not de-configure everything and plug away at it hoping for the best.
To be clear: I have a manually written /etc/network/interfaces file that works perfectly. My ethernet ports, eth0 and eth1, are in manual mode and bonded using mode 0 (round-robin) into bond0 which is in manual mode and bridged to br0 which is in static mode.
The NM widget doesn't like it apparently. It displays a yellow question mark over the tray icon. When I look at the wired connection (using "Edit"), it shows devices eth0 and eth1 but not bond0 or br0 and the port symbol looks like it's not in use - an empty port. I'd like to get it working correctly prior to setting up openVPN. What I should see (I think) is bond0 and br0 or even just br0 so I can select br0 as the port to use for the VPN's - which I'd like to be able to have more than one VPN connection selectable or just use the direct network connection when the VPN isn't needed.
Now we have a new NM widget that seems to support bonding and bridging, but I'm at a loss on how to get it to recognize my setup. I'd rather not de-configure everything and plug away at it hoping for the best.
To be clear: I have a manually written /etc/network/interfaces file that works perfectly. My ethernet ports, eth0 and eth1, are in manual mode and bonded using mode 0 (round-robin) into bond0 which is in manual mode and bridged to br0 which is in static mode.
The NM widget doesn't like it apparently. It displays a yellow question mark over the tray icon. When I look at the wired connection (using "Edit"), it shows devices eth0 and eth1 but not bond0 or br0 and the port symbol looks like it's not in use - an empty port. I'd like to get it working correctly prior to setting up openVPN. What I should see (I think) is bond0 and br0 or even just br0 so I can select br0 as the port to use for the VPN's - which I'd like to be able to have more than one VPN connection selectable or just use the direct network connection when the VPN isn't needed.
Didn't read the entire thing. 
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