Hi, Since Friday, netplan is now the default in artful. It is now included in the minimal seed, and thus part of all installs by default (if you find it missing, it's a bug I encourage you to report and let me know). It's a direct replacement for ifupdown: I'm still working on making ifupdown properly disappear from default installs (you will still be able to install it if you really want to).
Netplan is a framework for configuring networks [1]. It allows you to use a fully declarative syntax to describe how you want your network to look, and will take care of writing the configuration files needed for NetworkManager or systemd-networkd, saving you from having to learn the details of both of these configuration formats. For more information and how to use it, see [2]. As such, the default network config on a system configured to use DHCP might look like this: network: version: 2 ethernets: enp3s0: dhcp4: yes Netplan is intended to be the default configuration method for networking in 17.10. While we expect it's already up to the task, now is the time to really exercise it to its full potential, and to file bugs where things don't work as well as they should. Bugs should be filed here: http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nplan Netplan can use either NetworkManager or systemd-networkd to render the network the way you want it (hopefully... otherwise please file a bug!). The full documentation for it is available on any Ubuntu system in netplan(5) ('man 5 netplan'). Ubuntu Server installs done via the daily image already write configuration for the network interface as netplan configuration under /etc/netplan; and Ubuntu Desktop images have already been shipping a simple netplan configuration to let NetworkManager control the network devices since 16.10. We think you'll find this new interface enjoyable to use, removing many of the roadbumps that come from the interface-name-driven configuration of /etc/network/interfaces. [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MigratingToNetplan [2] https://git.launchpad.net/netplan/tree/doc/netplan.md Kindly, -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <cypher...@ubuntu.com> Freenode: cyphermox, Jabber: mathieu...@gmail.com 4096R/65B58DA1 818A D123 0992 275B 23C2 CF89 C67B B4D6 65B5 8DA1
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