On 09/11/2018 15:23, Gavin Westwood wrote:
> On 09/11/2018 15:16, Andy Smith wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 03:12:53PM +0000, Gavin Westwood wrote:
>>> I was caught out by this with a home server running 18.04. The way you
>>> configure networking has changed from that version to use a system
>>> called Netplan (https://netplan.io).
>> Doesn't ifupdown still work for interfaces listed in
>> /etc/network/interfaces?
> Hmmm, I'm not sure. Admittedly I was going for a less common use-case
> of a bridge between VMs and the actual home network using a fixed IP.
>
> Going back to Henry's issue, I'd say ignore netplan for now and move
> interfaces to interfaces.bak and create a new interfaces file with the
> entries that Andy specified, as I'm beginning to wonder if all the
> gateway entries (and the mixing of ipv4 and ipv6 in one entry) might be
> getting the networking in a muddle...
With Andy's suggested interfaces, it comes back up as expected after a
reboot. I still don't appear to have IPv6 though, which is puzzling (I
only have fe80 addresses, which I understand to be link-local, but then
I know next to nothing about IPv6).
Henry
