On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 2:25 PM Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 02:13:52PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > But, that leaves my second question unanswered: > > > > 2) What is the canonical current method in 2019 to [semi-]manually > > configure networking in stretch? And is it documented anywhere? (My two > > days of searching leads me to think "no". Or my google-fu really sucks.) > > > > I *thought* "/etc/network/interfaces" was being phased out (perhaps as > part > > of systemd or Network-Manager?). Then the web provides this answer then > > that answer - "service...", "systemctl...", "ip...", "ifup...", "if > up...", > > and I'm confident some of these are deprecated or not preferred or apply > in > > Case X but not Case Y, etc. With "The Handbook" being out of date, is > there > > a definitive explanation/guide out there? > > It's not being phased out, at least to my knowledge. > > There are, unfortunately, at least three competing ways to configure > network interfaces in Debian: /etc/network/interfaces, NetworkManager, > and systemd-networkd. > > I know nothing about systemd-networkd, except that it is disabled by > default, so I won't discuss that. Someone else may feel free to talk > about it. > > The other two are able to work in tandem. Any interface definition > in the /etc/network/interfaces file is authoritative and exclusive. > NetworkManager will not touch that interface. > > If NetworkManager isn't installed, then other interfaces not mentioned > in /e/n/i will simply be left unconfigured. If NM is installed, then > it will take control of any interfaces not configured by /e/n/i. > > NM is not installed by default with just the "Standard" task, but it > *is* installed as a dependency of some, or perhaps all, of the desktop > environment tasks. > > As far as I know, this is not new behavior; Debian has worked this way > for at least a few releases. You may think the handbook is "out of date", > and perhaps it is for some things, but not for this one. > > Thank you! That's a pretty good explanation. Had your explanation been in the Handbook (unless I just missed it), I wouldn't have been so ready to call a version 8 handbook "out of date" for a version 9.7 product. -- Kent West <")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com
