Bare Metal Install - No networking

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mrp
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Bare Metal Install - No networking

Post by mrp » Thu Jun 20, 2019 8:04 am

Keen to use Eve-NG for a large lab, installed on a computer, and while the /etc/sysconfig/interfaces shows an eth0 dhcp, the system itself ifconfig doesn't show eth0 , only loopback interface.

I have read through the cookbook and attmepted a few things with no success.

I have EVE-NG working as a VM on VMPlayer, but need a bigger LAB.

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Re: Bare Metal Install - No networking

Post by mrp » Thu Jun 20, 2019 8:32 am

I have tried 2 devices now and the same result with the networking

Starting to look like an issue with the build,

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Re: Bare Metal Install - No networking

Post by mrp » Thu Jun 20, 2019 1:14 pm

given up, spent 2 long just to build a lab and not enough time do networking,

chestar
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Re: Bare Metal Install - No networking

Post by chestar » Fri Jun 21, 2019 12:11 pm

did you check the dirver of you computer NIC?
I think the proble in you dirver, you can use lscpi command then filter "eth" keyword.
like this:
lspci|grep -i eth

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Re: Bare Metal Install - No networking

Post by camarchepas » Tue Mar 23, 2021 5:12 pm

Hello,

I am exactly in the same situation !

I did the Linux install first (Ubuntu server 16.4.6). No problem.

I renamed the interfaces as mentionned in the documentation and, poof, connectivity was gone. I tried to revert to the original network names, but it didn't solve the problem.

I reinstalled ubuntu but this time I didn't rename the interfaces. The eve-ng installation proceeded without problems, except when it completed connectivity was gone yet again. When I checked the /etc/network/interfaces, there was indeed the eth0 interfaces (although i didn't rename it) but no connectivity still, just as in the first case.

My driver is the igb driver.

I had to revert back to ESXi but it sucks as it's such a resource hog. I wish I could run it on bare metal.

Any help ?

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Re: Bare Metal Install - No networking

Post by fryguy_pa » Thu Apr 01, 2021 10:11 pm

I had a similar problem on Ubuntu 20.04 and had to do the following:

For the /etc/netplan/00-installer-config file, I could not re-name and then apply the grub update. I had to set the 00-installer-config file for eth0 to match on MAC address of the interface.
For reference, all of my NIC interfaces started with eno1, eno2, eno3, so the renaming to eth0 per the guide breaks the connectivity.

Snipping of config:

network:
ethernets:
eth0:
match:
macaddress: b8:ca:3a:61:dd:58
rest of your config here

To find the MAC address, you can use the ip -a command and copy/paste the MAC from there.

Fryguy
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