Re: [CentOS] Unable to get dummy interfaces to persist across reboots in CentOS 8

2020-11-12 Thread Frank Even
A colleague actually figured this out. There is an entry in /lib/modprobe.d/systemd.conf that seems to override any other user configurations applied. options dummy numdummies=0 ...needs to be removed from this file (or at least modified, but since my configuration already lays that down in /etc

Re: [CentOS] Unable to get dummy interfaces to persist across reboots in CentOS 8

2020-10-28 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
Requirement is a very strong word , but you should consider using it and here is a short demo why: - By default, RHEL uses NetworkManager to configure and manage network connections, and the /usr/sbin/ifup and /usr/sbin/ifdown scripts use NetworkManager to process ifcfg files in the /etc/syscon

Re: [CentOS] Unable to get dummy interfaces to persist across reboots in CentOS 8

2020-10-28 Thread Simon Matter
> No. Network Manager is always disabled on our builds since at least > Cent5 days. The network stack has always been able to be managed > properly without relying on Network Manager. Is that now an absolute > requirement? It never has been prior. IIRC the old style network scripts will go awa

Re: [CentOS] Unable to get dummy interfaces to persist across reboots in CentOS 8

2020-10-28 Thread Frank Even
As far as what dummy interfaces are used for, they're basically loopbacks that allow for some better network management/flexibility (by separating it from the actual system loopback). On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 6:26 PM Strahil Nikolov via CentOS wrote: > > Have you tried to use NetworkManager ? > Af

Re: [CentOS] Unable to get dummy interfaces to persist across reboots in CentOS 8

2020-10-28 Thread Frank Even
No. Network Manager is always disabled on our builds since at least Cent5 days. The network stack has always been able to be managed properly without relying on Network Manager. Is that now an absolute requirement? It never has been prior. On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 6:26 PM Strahil Nikolov via Ce

Re: [CentOS] Unable to get dummy interfaces to persist across reboots in CentOS 8

2020-10-26 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
Have you tried with Network Manager , after all this is the thing that manages all networks: [root@system ~]# nmcli connection add con-name dummy0 ifname dummy0 type dummy   Connection 'dummy0' (9fdd74fa-c143-4991-9bac-0e542704ac89) successfully added. [root@system ~]# reboot Shared connection

Re: [CentOS] Unable to get dummy interfaces to persist across reboots in CentOS 8

2020-10-26 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
Have you tried to use NetworkManager ? After all ,anything network related should be done by it. [root@system ~]# nmcli connection add con-name dummy0 ifname dummy0 type dummy   Connection 'dummy0' (9fdd74fa-c143-4991-9bac-0e542704ac89) successfully added. [root@system ~]# reboot Shared connectio

Re: [CentOS] Unable to get dummy interfaces to persist across reboots in CentOS 8

2020-10-26 Thread Frank Even
Anyone have any ideas? It's rather annoying that I can't get these to persist across reboots without using some kind of helper script. On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 6:37 AM Frank Even wrote: > > Hello all, hoping someone can help me out here. > > I cannot get dummy interfaces on a new Cent8 build to p