Thank you for your quick reply. On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 12:22 AM Henning Follmann <hfollm...@itcfollmann.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 06:33:42PM +0100, Steffen Dettmer wrote: > > I changed a gateway on a remote site using /etc/network/interfaces by > > changing gateway. However, at reboot some old gateway IP reappears. I > > I have no clue where the wrong 2.43 comes from. > [...] deleted that nonsense. Nonsense? I think the lines illustrate the issue to the experienced eye and in fact, it did, so that Pierre-Elliott spotted the issue (I tell it in a second).
> why are you making it so difficult to anyone trying to help you? I don't know, surely not intentional. I just ran out of ideas. > Nobody is interested in your way how you edit that file. Sure, except: Emacs or Vim, which is better? (Just kidding :)) > please show us two versions of that file (pre reboot and after) > Also tell us any programs you use to manage your network settings I had told I would use vim to edit the file... but I had been wrong! The machine I SSH'd to in fact was not a machine, but rather a container, and the network configured by the virtualisation environment! That is what changes the IP. The container op made an error in the IP and I was the unfortunate one just arriving in time :) > [] NetworkManager > [] systemd-networkd > [] some magic own scripts > [] ... [x] vim [x] Proxmox (but I didn't know this) (*1) (*1) don't work together well :) Regards, Steffen
