Interface Bridges in Device Type

[PaulR282]

NetBox version

v3.1.4

Feature type

Change to existing functionality

Proposed functionality

Currently you can only bridge interfaces if the device already exists. It would be nice to "pre-bridge" interfaces in the device Type.

Use case

When you have devices like mediaconverter, currently you have to manually bridge the 2 interfaces after creating the device for every single device. It would be a lot easier to bridge the interfaces in the device type.

Database changes

No response

External dependencies

No response

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[sleepinggenius2]

Just wanted to add that it would be nice to be able to do the same for Parent interface and LAG interface. I've run into both situations recently. On our aggregation switches, we create a LAG for the uplink and it would certainly save a step to have that already set up in the device template. The bigger issue I had recently was with the parent/child relationship, as we have some devices with bulk connectors that we currently model as a physical connector with virtual child interfaces under it and it's cumbersome having to remember to create those relationships each time a new device is added. Please let me know if I need to open a separate FR or if it's sufficient to update this one to include all the interface relationship types. I assume the implementation for one should be almost identical for the others, but maybe I'm missing something.