Good choice : Install ifupdown or whatever. YAML it's a terrible file to edit by commandline.
Bad choice : use chatgpt to generate your network configuration
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Good choice : Install ifupdown or whatever. YAML it's a terrible file to edit by commandline.
Bad choice : use chatgpt to generate your network configuration
Netplan is pretty simple for what it is. All you need is the interface, address, and route, maybe DNS if you don’t want to set that up another way. Because it’s yaml, spacing matters, so watch that. You can use netplan try
which will automatically revert if you don’t give it any input for a certain amount of time.
network:
renderer: networkd
ethernets:
ens33:
addresses:
- 192.168.1.247/24
nameservers:
addresses: [4.2.2.2, 8.8.8.8]
routes:
- to: default
via: 192.168.1.1
version: 2