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Netplan

Netplan is a network configuration util for linux.

Configuration

Section titled “Configuration”

Configuration is stored in /etc/netplan/*.yaml. Multiple files may exist but alphabetically later ones will override keys in previous files. Customise network configuration by creating the file /etc/netplan/99-custom.yaml which will be loaded last.

Dynamic IP

Section titled “Dynamic IP”
network:
  ethernets:
    enp0s8:
      dhcp4: true
  version: 2

Static IP

Section titled “Static IP”
# static IP
network:
  ethernets:
    enp0s3:
      addresses:
        - 192.168.120.62/24
    enp0s8:
      addresses:
        - 192.168.140.62/24
      gateway4: 192.168.140.1
      nameservers:
        addresses: [192.168.100.66]
  version: 2

The above

  • assigns a single IP 192.168.120.62 to enp0s3, with a netmask of 255.255.255.0.
  • assigns a single IP 192.168.140.62 to enp0s8, with a netmask of 255.255.255.0.

It creates a route table

Terminal window
$ route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
0.0.0.0         192.168.140.1   0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 enp0s8
192.168.120.0   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 enp0s3
192.168.140.0   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 enp0s8

And updates DNS

Terminal window
$ resolvectl status


Link 3 (enp0s8)
      Current Scopes: DNS
DefaultRoute setting: yes
       LLMNR setting: yes
MulticastDNS setting: no
  DNSOverTLS setting: no
      DNSSEC setting: no
    DNSSEC supported: no
  Current DNS Server: 192.168.100.66
         DNS Servers: 192.168.100.66

Apply configuration

Section titled “Apply configuration”

Run netplan try to immediately apply and confirm. It will rollback if you do not confirm the changes.

Do not reboot until configuration has been successfully applied and tested as it will attempt to apply the configuration at startup.

Terminal window
# netplan try
Warning: Stopping systemd-networkd.service, but it can still be activated by:
  systemd-networkd.socket
Do you want to keep these settings?




Press ENTER before the timeout to accept the new configuration




Changes will revert in 119 seconds
Configuration accepted.

References

Section titled “References”