[systemd-devel] networkd config for dummy0 interface

[Tom Gundersen]

On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
> So I had another look at this:
>
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Vasiliy Tolstov <v.tolstov at selfip.ru> wrote:
>> Hi. I have very strange task:
>> 1) Nedd modprobe dummy
>
> Don't (will be autoloaded in 2)).
>
>> 2) Assign specific mac address to it
>
> Do this when creating the dummy device:
>
> # ip link add my-dummy address 6e:f0:0c:93:cf:e3 type dummy
>
> (I'd be happy to take a patch to add dummy support to networkd so that
> we can create this from a .netdev file).

Just added support for this to networkd, so the .netdev file you want is:

--8<-------------

[NetDev]
Name=my-dummy
Kind=dummy
MACAddress=6e:f0:0c:93:cf:e3

--8<-------------

>> 3) Bring up it
>> 4) Assign specific address to it
>
> As mentioned earlier, just use a .network file:
>
> --8<-------------
>
> [Match]
> Name=my-dummy
>
> [Network]
> Address=192.168.0.1/24
>
> --8<-------------
>
> HTH,
>
> Tom