[GLLUG] Debian interfaces and disable systemd

James Courtier-Dutton james.dutton at gmail.com
Thu Apr 12 11:52:40 UTC 2018


On 12 April 2018 at 08:28, Henrik Morsing <henrik at morsing.cc> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 12:06:23PM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
>>
>>
>> I use Ubuntu that uses systemd.
>> I have never had a problem with it.
>> when "/etc/network/interfaces" exists, for the interfaces listed in
>> it, systemd and network manager give the interfaces file priority.
>> My use of interfaces has only been when I need to assign a PC a fixed
>> IP address.
>> Even that is mostly unnecessary, because I could have put all the
>> fixed IP addresses in the DHCP server.
>
>
> So I'm stuck then? My Debian is just broken?

Maybe I should have been more specific.
/etc/network/interfaces takes priority over systemd and network
manager after a reboot.
Before you have rebooted, you need to disable network manager (Untick
the enable networking).
Then use
ifup  eth0
ifdown eth0
This should test your config, then next do the reboot.



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