Mon cheri
> Sent: Friday, March 25, 2022 at 10:09 AM
> From: "David Wright" <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Under each of these scenarios, what is the neatest and simplest
> way to manipulate the /etc/network/interfaces file?
>
> Please elaborate on what you mean by "correct" in this context,
> and also give your opinion on the correctness or otherwise of
> this line:
>
> source-directory /etc/network/interfaces.d
>
> Without knowing the reasoning behind your statement, there's
> not a lot more help I can give.
>
My distro is Debian 11
Attempt #1
When the /etc/network/interfaces file has the line
source-directory /etc/network/interfaces.d/*
and the following three files have the .hidden in /etc/network/interfaces.d/
lan.hidden
usb0.hidden
wlo1.hidden
Upon reboot and in a terminal:
username@hostname:~$ ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group
default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: wlo1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default
qlen 1000
link/ether e5:d3:a2:b9:c3:27 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
altname wln0s7
username@hostname:~$ sudo ifup wlo1.hidden
[sudo] password for username:
ifup: unknown interface wlo1.hidden
username@hostname:~$ sudo ifup wlo1
ifup: unknown interface wlo1
username@hostname:~$
Attempt #2
When the /etc/network/interfaces file has the line
source-directory /etc/network/interfaces.d/*
and the following three files do NOT have the .hidden in
/etc/network/interfaces.d/
lan
usb0
wlo1
Upon reboot and in a terminal:
username@hostname:~$ ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group
default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: wlo1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP
group default qlen 1000
link/ether e5:d3:a2:b9:c3:27 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
altname wln0s7
inet 192.168.43.51/24 brd 192.168.43.255 scope global dynamic wlo1
valid_lft 3576sec preferred_lft 3576sec
username@hostname:~$
Best wishes.
Stella
