Re: How to create a persistent loopback address

From	Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: How to create a persistent loopback address
Date	2024-12-01 01:10 +0100
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On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 6:57 PM Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 07:04:22PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> > Surely if you are using NetworkManager you would just do it with nmcli.
> > I can't recite the incantations off the top of my head but I imagine
> > that creating a new interface is pretty simple.
>
> My first web search led me to:
>
> $ sudo nmcli conn add \
>     type dummy \
>     ifname ospf-lo \
>     ipv4.method manual \
>     ipv4.address 10.0.0.1/32 \
>     ipv6.method disable
> Connection 'dummy-ospf-lo' (c21bdb21-375f-484b-9c7e-4d088c139fc3)
> successfully added.
> $ ip a sh dev ospf-lo
> 6: ospf-lo: <BROADCAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state
> UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
>     link/ether 42:39:23:bd:ab:e1 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>     inet 10.0.0.1/32 scope global noprefixroute ospf-lo
>        valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
>

Andy, thanks for the info. I decided to scrap NM and just use ifup.

thanks
Tim




> Thanks,
> Andy
>
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How to create a persistent loopback address Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com> - 2024-11-30 08:30 +0100
  Re: How to create a persistent loopback address john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2024-11-30 14:10 +0100
  Re: How to create a persistent loopback address Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com> - 2024-11-30 19:50 +0100
    Re: How to create a persistent loopback address Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-11-30 20:10 +0100
      Re: How to create a persistent loopback address john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2024-11-30 20:20 +0100
        Re: How to create a persistent loopback address john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2024-11-30 20:30 +0100
          Re: How to create a persistent loopback address Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-11-30 20:40 +0100
            Re: How to create a persistent loopback address Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com> - 2024-12-01 02:20 +0100
      Re: How to create a persistent loopback address Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-11-30 20:20 +0100
        Re: How to create a persistent loopback address Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com> - 2024-12-01 01:10 +0100
    Re: How to create a persistent loopback address Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com> - 2024-11-30 20:20 +0100
      Re: How to create a persistent loopback address Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-11-30 20:20 +0100

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