Static Route in Ubuntu Desktop

Nik 99

Hi. Whats the best method to add a static route in ubuntu desktop 16.04? In the GUI (via edit connections) or through the terminal in etc/network/interfaces?

networker050184

Whichever you feel most comfortable with. Personally I'm a CLI type of guy.

Nik 99

Ah, thanks for that. Another question. If I go with the CLI route will IP settings in etc/network/interfaces override anything configured in the GUI?

paul78

If you are using the GUI Network-Manager, it manages the files using the same mechanism as the CLI version of network-manager - Ie. nmcli. If you are editing the interfaces file directly, I don't recall where the source files are stored in Ubuntu 16.04.

One thing that I wanted to point out is that in Ubuntu 18.04, network-manager has been replaced with netplan and the configuration files are different. It uses a yaml format which is stored in /etc/netplan.

Nik 99

Thanks for answering that paul.

I would be using 18.04 but the application I want to use doesn't support it yet. Besides that netplan looks more annoying then network-manager, at least to me =P

paul78

Nik 99 wrote: »

Thanks for answering that paul. I would be using 18.04 but the application I want to use doesn't support it yet. Besides that netplan looks more annoying then network-manager, at least to me =P

You're welcome. I personally find all these mechanism annoying. I'm still annoyed by systemd but I'm slowly getting over my irrational thoughts about it.

Most apps will run fine on 18.04 unless they are using a obsolete package that 18.04 no longer makes avail in the repo. You can always try it on an 18.04 system to see if it works.