[systemd-devel] systemd-networkd bridge with DHCP not working

[Henrik /KaarPoSoft]

On 03/18/2014 09:18 AM, Henrik /KaarPoSoft wrote:
> On 03/17/2014 10:32 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 10:21 PM, Henrik /KaarPoSoft
>> <henrik at kaarposoft.dk> wrote:
>>> Hi Tom,
>>>
>>> Thanks for your feedback...
>>>
>>> I was briefly looking through git commits after 211 without finding
>>> anything
>>> related. But then again I did not look into too much detail.
>>>
>>> Do you know which commit would solve this?
>>
>> Ah, this was not obvious at all. This was almost certainly fixed as a
>> side-effect of refactoring the rtnl_message_read_*() code, so if you
>> pull in 9842de0d93d and the commits it relies on that should do it (I
>> haven't verified that that's the culprit, but it seems likely from
>> looking at it).
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Tom
>>
> Tom,
> As far as I can see, 9842de0d93d was already included in 211.
> I have rebuild my systemd from the head of git 4dd5da7f.
> And the problem remains )))-:
> /Henrik

As a quick hack, I tried this:

cat > /etc/systemd/network/42-br0.link<<EOF
[Match]
Type=bridge
[Link]
MACAddress=10:bf:48:d7:68:e1
EOF

And now I get an IP address by DHCP, and I have connectivity.

But hard-coding the MAC is hardly a viable long-term solution...

/Henrik