[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#550692: Bug#550692: Script network-bridge in lenny may break network/firewall configuration

[Bastian Blank]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:33:20AM +0200, Daniel Lutz wrote:
> We used the script "network-bridge" on our Xen servers based on "etch" (xen-utils-common 3.0.3-0-2)
> to setup bridge configuration. 

Don't use this script if you have special needs. See
/usr/share/doc/bridge-utils/ how to do that the Debian way.

> I think this change of configuration by the new scripts might break firewalling rules of
> other people, too. So there should be a way to re-activiate the old behaviour of the scripts,
> or get a smooth transition to the new way of configuration.

It is documented in the changelog and follows upstream.

Bastian

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