How would I manually set an interfaces type in networkmanager?
by Sol33t303 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#59H9C)
At the moment I have been playing around with some VMs and networking recently (just for the learning experiance), at the moment I have an interface on the host called "veth0" connected to the VM, here is the relevent part of the VMs config:
Code: <interface type='ethernet'>
<mac address='52:54:00:cb:80:51'/>
<target dev='veth0'/>
<model type='e1000e'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x05' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
</interface>The VM is setup to be a DHCP server, so it can give the host an IP over this interface. This works fine if I run "dhcpcd vath0". The interface gets an ip and the host and guest can communicate fine.
However, when I get NetworkManager to manage this interface, it doesn't work. When I try to activate the interface it just fails, with this error:
Code:Error: Failed to add/activate new connection: cannot get interface name due to failed to determine interface name: error determine name for tun"sudo nmcli connection show" also shows that NetworkManager for some strange reason misidentifies the interface as a tun interface, when it's really a veth interface. I have a feeling that that might be the reason I am getting the error above, so would anybody know of a way to manually set an interfaces type in NetworkManager (or some other possible solution to my issue)? Strangely, if I run dhcpcd on the interface and leave it running while I get netwrkmanager to activate the interface, then kill dhcpcd, NetworkManager continues to manage the interface just fine on it's own until I decide to deactivate the interface (where if I try to reactivate it again the above error shows back up)
Code: <interface type='ethernet'>
<mac address='52:54:00:cb:80:51'/>
<target dev='veth0'/>
<model type='e1000e'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x05' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
</interface>The VM is setup to be a DHCP server, so it can give the host an IP over this interface. This works fine if I run "dhcpcd vath0". The interface gets an ip and the host and guest can communicate fine.
However, when I get NetworkManager to manage this interface, it doesn't work. When I try to activate the interface it just fails, with this error:
Code:Error: Failed to add/activate new connection: cannot get interface name due to failed to determine interface name: error determine name for tun"sudo nmcli connection show" also shows that NetworkManager for some strange reason misidentifies the interface as a tun interface, when it's really a veth interface. I have a feeling that that might be the reason I am getting the error above, so would anybody know of a way to manually set an interfaces type in NetworkManager (or some other possible solution to my issue)? Strangely, if I run dhcpcd on the interface and leave it running while I get netwrkmanager to activate the interface, then kill dhcpcd, NetworkManager continues to manage the interface just fine on it's own until I decide to deactivate the interface (where if I try to reactivate it again the above error shows back up)