Have you tried with Network Manager , after all this is the thing that manages all networks: [root at system ~]# nmcli connection add con-name dummy0 ifname dummy0 type dummy Connection 'dummy0' (9fdd74fa-c143-4991-9bac-0e542704ac89) successfully added. [root at system ~]# reboot Shared connection to glustera closed. [root at system ~]# nmcli connection show NAME UUID TYPE DEVICE dummy0 9fdd74fa-c143-4991-9bac-0e542704ac89 dummy dummy0 [root at system ~]# ip a s dummy0 3: dummy0: <BROADCAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000 link/ether ce:c9:83:97:10:ee brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet6 fe80::599:a978:9457:df10/64 scope link noprefixroute valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov В вторник, 27 октомври 2020 г., 02:42:06 Гринуич+2, Frank Even <lists+centos.org at elitists.org> написа: Anyone have any ideas? It's rather annoying that I can't get these to persist across reboots without using some kind of helper script. On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 6:37 AM Frank Even <lists+centos.org at elitists.org> wrote: > > Hello all, hoping someone can help me out here. > > I cannot get dummy interfaces on a new Cent8 build to persist across reboots. > > On Cent7 - this is the process I use: > > Create Dummies: > # cat /etc/modules-load.d/dummy.conf > dummy > # cat /etc/modprobe.d/dummyopts.conf > options dummy numdummies=4 > # ip link add dummy0 type dummy > ## - repeating a/ ascending dummyN adapters for as many needed > # service network start > # dracut -f > > Now this was different than even how 6 handled it, forget how I > finally dug that up (possible I even asked here). I've applied this > same configuration to a Cent8 box I'm trying to stand up and it all > appears to work fine, but unlike the Cent7 boxes, when the Cent8 box > comes back up, all the dummy adapters are missing. I've been > searching all over trying to find some documentation on this to no > avail. I'm hoping someone has some suggestions here to help out. > > Thanks, > Frank _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos