Restarting networking without rebooting borks OVS bridge

[Hans van den Bogert]

I am using an OVS bridge which is working fine on start. However using `service networking restart` fails to properly setup the OVS bridge. After the network restart, the running VMs and containers respective interfaces are not added to the OVS bridge.
In order to regain network connectivity to the VMs and containers, I have to restart them

Is this expected behaviour? Or should the network service, on restart, re-add the VM and containter interfaces?

 

[dietmar]

Is this expected behaviour?

Yes. You should should not restart the whole network service when you have running VMs.