[ale] static ip network configuration

[Phil Smith]

I'll give it the old College Try.

But guis didn't get me into this mess: living to 74 did. It probably will catch up with y'all young guys.

I'll work on this and get back to the group. thanks for your suggestions!!

Older than Rocks




On Saturday, January 11th, 2025 at 3:26 PM, Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> DJPfulio--- via Ale said on Wed, 8 Jan 2025 10:34:38 -0500
> 
> > Russell, Ubuntu hasn't used the "interface" file for over 5 yrs,
> > perhaps since 2017. Ubuntu uses netplan.yaml files for non-GUI
> > setups. Humans modifying YAML pretty much sucks, but that's Ubuntu
> > thinking they need to change things that aren't broke yet again.
> 
> 
> This is a response to the OP, not DJPfulio...
> 
> Or you can probably do it with the following very short minimal
> shellscript run from /etc/rc.local or whatever systemd runs after
> bringing up all services:
> 
> ===============================================================
> 
> ip link set dev lo up
> ip link set dev enp3s6 down
> ip addr add 192.168.100.87/24 dev enp3s6
> ip link set dev enp3s6 up
> ip route add default via 192.168.100.96
> 
> ===============================================================
> 
> The preceding shellscript does the job quite well, on pretty much any
> distro, but it gives all sorts of warnings if it has to undo networking
> done previously.
> 
> If you want something a lot more robust, portable and universal, that
> works in spite of an earlier partial or complete or erroneous network
> setup,
> read https://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/qemu/nobs.htm#hostnetworking .
> 
> As Russell said earlier in this thread, it's point and clickism that
> got you into this "I can't remember" mess in the first place.
> 
> SteveT
> 
> Steve Litt
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