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keeely

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Registered: 2019-06-23

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[SOLVED] How do I give my dummy network interface an IP address?

I've been a long-time Slackware user but am in the process of moving to Arch.  Google and the Arch wiki has helped a lot with translating my system configuration over, but I'm stuck on just one thing.  I want to run these commands on each boot to setup the dummy network device address:

ip link add dummy1 type dummy
ip addr add <ip address> dev dummy1

So what's the equivalent in Arch?  I'd like to do this before dnsmasq starts.

thanks for any help.

Last edited by keeely (2019-06-25 11:12:39)

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] How do I give my dummy network interface an IP address?

Welcome to the arch linux forums keely.
If the system is configured for networkd then create a netdevfile and a network files for the interface.
If not I would suggest a systemd service to execute the two commands with a WantedBy of network.target

ewaller

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Re: [SOLVED] How do I give my dummy network interface an IP address?

But, those ip commands should  just work.  ip is part of netct which is part of base

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seth

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Re: [SOLVED] How do I give my dummy network interface an IP address?

$ pacman -Ql netctl | grep ip
netctl /usr/lib/netctl/ip

$ file /usr/lib/netctl/ip
/usr/lib/netctl/ip: ASCII text

$ pacman -Qo ip
/usr/bin/ip is owned by iproute2

$ pacman -Qi iproute2
…
Required By     : dhclient  netctl

Though I think his problem was more "how do I run this automatically and in time" (iproute2 is still in the base group)

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keeely

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Registered: 2019-06-23

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Re: [SOLVED] How do I give my dummy network interface an IP address?

Thanks for the replies, I've set this up using the following, all working now:

/etc/systemd/network/dummy.netdev

[NetDev]
Name=dummy1
Kind=dummy

/etc/systemd/network/dummy.network

[Match]
Name=dummy1
[Address]
Address=169.254.0.1/32