Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Committing to Netplan for Network Configuration

Re:Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Committing to Netplan for Network Config... by merb on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @01:39PM (#38267532)

I prefer plain Systeme-networkd. Basically you just create a network unit file and configure the interface with it. Basically like network/interfaces, just a little bit more cleaned up

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Re:Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Committing to Netplan for Network Config... by Faaak on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @01:51PM (#38267720)

netplan can actually use systemd-networkd as a backend. It will just generate the unit files, and let systemd do the job.

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Re:Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Committing to Netplan for Network Config... by merb on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @01:57PM (#38267809)

but what’s the point. It’s not that much work to create a unit file and configuration is always better in text form.

If netplan would be an api driven tool via dbus or other ipc‘s to drive an ui I would understand the need. But as cli tool?! It’s a little bit stupid

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Re:Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Committing to Netplan for Network Config... by vetinari on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @02:01PM (#38267873)

NetworkManager is that api driven tool, with cli frontend available too (nmcli); I don't get the need for netplan either.

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Re:Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Committing to Netplan for Network Config... by candiddevmike on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @01:58PM (#38267820)

What's the benefit over writing netplan vs networks unit files?

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Re:Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Committing to Netplan for Network Config... by DannyBee on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @03:00PM (#38268805)

So that if you like to randomly switch your underlying network management tools, you can have something take what you have and generate semi-working configurations with hard to track down bugs.

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