Prevent Bridge Connections from Automatically Turning On

Every time I boot Ubuntu, I have to first turn off both the bridge connections br1 and br0 to connect to my wifi. And there is no option to forget the connections. So how can I configure these bridge connections so that they won't turn on every time I boot ubuntu.
This problem arose after I used my mobile for USB tethering.

It's really irritating to turn the connections off every time I boot. Please help me with this problem, and also can you please explain why is it happening?

1 Answer

Okay, so it turned out that in the file /etc/network/interfaces all the bridge interfaces have been defined. The auto keyword before the interface name bring up it up every time after boot. So removing the keyword did the work.

Use sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces to edit the file.

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