Why are the `bridge-slave`, `bond-slave` and `team-slave` interface types no longer supported in RHEL 8 and newer versions?

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Issue

  • Why are the bridge-slave, bond-slave, and team-slave interface types no longer supported in RHEL 8 and newer versions?
  • Why does bridge-slave not work with bond or VLAN?
  • Unable to bring UP bridge-slave type connection.
  • Error: Connection activation failed: No suitable device found for this connection (device enp1s0 not available because profile is not compatible with device (mismatching interface name)).

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10
  • NetworkManager
  • nmcli

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