Today, after booting, the phenomena described above didn't occur. This time NM correctly associated the devices with it's configured connections ("wired_dhcp", "vlan-vlan10", "vlan-vlan20" below, and no problems were observed. > mwilck@apollon:~> nmcli con > NAME UUID TYPE DEVICE > virbr0 878efa52-0744-409d-bc11-b3c2a642ec23 bridge virbr0 > virbr1 067f0505-e56c-4441-b0b4-faa07d5780a2 bridge virbr1 > vlan-vlan10 9fdf61c7-a18c-415e-a02a-e9d804ef08a6 vlan vlan10 < vlan-vlan20 cc771a2d-f01a-461c-a1b8-1c5118a14c9e vlan vlan20 > wired_dhcp b99bd77c-b92a-453d-a714-fef71dfd5586 ethernet enp0s31f6 > bridge-br0 e1557585-b953-49f9-9b8e-fafd66e4e49e bridge br0 Thus this seems to be sporadic.