On Vi, 28 iun 19, 14:46:15, Baptiste BEAUPLAT wrote: > On 6/28/19 2:39 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: > > > Would be good to know how Baptiste is setting up those devices. If he is > > doing it manually via some scripting of low level tool or uses a higher > > level network management tool > > Fwiw, with "ip link add dummy0 type dummy" (or "ip link add bond0 type > > bond") I was e.g. able to create such a device manually as well. > > I wonder whether such an approach isn't better then statically setting > > the number of devices via a kernel module option. > > My original setup was: > > echo "dummy" > /etc/modules > > cat << EOF >> /etc/network/interfaces > auto dummy0 > iface dummy0 inet static > address 192.168.64.1 > netmask 24 > EOF > > The interface would pop up configured at boot time (by ifup). Then, I > had services binding on 192.168.64.1.
A (quick) look at interfaces(5) doesn't reveal any specific method to create dummy or bond interfaces. In order to keep things within one configuration file it would make sense to use a pre-up with ip commands as suggested above. Would this work *without* overriding the systemd.conf file? Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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