=== axsuul_ is now known as axsuul === scoobydoo_ is now known as scoobydoo === Linux is now known as Unix === Unix is now known as UNIX [17:16] 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] \o/ [19:11] hi [22:46] 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] can I configure br0 to show link up? [22:49] jafa: "ip link set up dev br0" I think? [22:50] 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] If you really need something connected to it, maybe create a dummy interface and add that to the bridge? [22:51] no change to the link state with that command [22:52] dummy interface - is that something else? every webpage I see talking about dummy interfaces uses a bridge [22:53] that might be due to netplan [22:53] Yes dummy is separate to bridge. See ip-link(8) [22:54] Something like "ip link add dummy0 type dummy" [22:54] Then set that up, and add it to the bridge? [22:54] The problem you describe sounds odd though. What are you actually trying to achieve? [22:56] the server is a router (two public interfaces) and I want to run a service on it with its own routable ip [22:56] normally this is easy with a lan-side NIC having an IP address [22:57] but in this case I am trying to do a LAN side network of just local services, no physical lan [22:58] That sounds like a regular bridge configuration to me. [22:59] 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] You might want to pastebin your configuration to get more help on that. [22:59] But sorry, I have to go now. [22:59] netplan creates the bridge and assigns the IP ok [22:59] thanks for your help [23:12] 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] ifconfig doesn't show as running, ip link reports no-carrier, and ip route reports linkdown [23:21] adding a dummy interface brought it up as rbasak suggested but that shouldn't be necessary [23:42] 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] but the same netplan yaml on the real server doesn't show link up on the bridge by default