Network configuration

Configure your network

Network Manager

By default your system is configured with dhcp using Netwok Manager. Currently Network Manager is installed on the system as a part of layers/X.

systemd-networkd

If you want to use systemd-networkd instead of Network Manager follow these steps.

First disable Network Manager service and enable systemd-networkd service:

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root@mocaccino:~# systemctl stop NetworkManager
root@mocaccino:~# systemctl disable NetworkManager
root@mocaccino:~# systemctl enable systemd-networkd

Enable the systemd-resolved service:

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root@mocaccino:~# systemctl enable systemd-resolved
root@mocaccino:~# systemctl start systemd-resolved

Configure your connection: To list available connectiond you can run networkctl

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root@mocaccino:~# networkctl

This will display a list like this:

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IDX LINK        TYPE     OPERATIONAL SETUP     
  1 lo          loopback carrier     unmanaged
  2 enp3s0      ether    routable    configured
  3 enp2s0      ether    off         unmanaged
  4 edgevpn0    none     routable    unmanaged
  5 docker0     bridge   routable    unmanaged
  7 vethf4478cf ether    enslaved    unmanaged
  9 veth65a81ba ether    enslaved    unmanaged
 11 veth6df3fd4 ether    enslaved    unmanaged

8 links listed.

In our example we want to configure enp3s0

Static config:

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root@mocaccino:~# nano /etc/systemd/network/00-enp3s0.network

And as an example add this to the file

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[Match]
Name=enp3s0

[Network]
Address=192.168.1.50/24
Gateway=192.168.1.1
DNS=192.168.1.1

DHCP: We edit the same file as above but now we put in this config

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[Match]
Name=enp3s0

[Network]
DHCP=yes

Last modified July 5, 2025: bump (651e7fb)