[17:16] <yurtesen> ahasenack Hi, I wanted to say thanks for help in fixing the tomcat package. Unfortunately I was away on July/August so I could not test it yet.
[18:36] <utkarsh2102> \o/
[19:11] <SamuelMarks> hi
[22:46] <jafa> hi guys, I am trying to set up a br0 interface with no physical interfaces so I can give it an ip address and ip forward to this virtual interface. The br0 interface comes up ok but reports no-link so nothing works
[22:47] <jafa> can I configure br0 to show link up?
[22:49] <rbasak> jafa: "ip link set up dev br0" I think?
[22:50] <rbasak> I'm not sure if you need an interface connected to a bridge or not, but IIRC that should work unless I've got the syntax wrong.
[22:50] <rbasak> If you really need something connected to it, maybe create a dummy interface and add that to the bridge?
[22:51] <jafa> no change to the link state with that command
[22:52] <jafa> dummy interface - is that something else? every webpage I see talking about dummy interfaces uses a bridge
[22:53] <jafa> that might be due to netplan
[22:53] <rbasak> Yes dummy is separate to bridge. See ip-link(8)
[22:54] <rbasak> Something like "ip link add dummy0 type dummy"
[22:54] <rbasak> Then set that up, and add it to the bridge?
[22:54] <rbasak> The problem you describe sounds odd though. What are you actually trying to achieve?
[22:56] <jafa> the server is a router (two public interfaces) and I want to run a service on it with its own routable ip
[22:56] <jafa> normally this is easy with a lan-side NIC having an IP address
[22:57] <jafa> but in this case I am trying to do a LAN side network of just local services, no physical lan
[22:58] <rbasak> That sounds like a regular bridge configuration to me.
[22:59] <rbasak> You shouldn't need anything special for this. I think you must therefore have some kind of misconfiguration for a basic bridge setup.
[22:59] <rbasak> You might want to pastebin your configuration to get more help on that.
[22:59] <rbasak> But sorry, I have to go now.
[22:59] <jafa> netplan creates the bridge and assigns the IP ok
[22:59] <jafa> thanks for your help
[23:12] <rfm> jafa, what do you mean nothing works? I just set up a minimal bridge with no connected interfaces but an address, and I could ping the address using -I br1
[23:20] <jafa> ifconfig doesn't show as running, ip link reports no-carrier, and ip route reports linkdown
[23:21] <jafa> adding a dummy interface brought it up as rbasak suggested but that shouldn't be necessary
[23:42] <jafa> ok, this is weird... if I create a linode vm and add a bridge in netplan it shows link up and works by default
[23:43] <jafa> but the same netplan yaml on the real server doesn't show link up on the bridge by default