network manager – Just another Linux geek

18 July, 202118 July, 2021Fedora, FOSS

How to create VLAN trunks and access ports for VMs on Linux bridges using NetworkManager (and have them talk)

TL;DR instead of creating a VLAN on a physical interface (like bond0.123), then turning that into a bridge for a VM, create a tagged interface on the main bridge (e.g. […]

29 August, 202029 August, 2020Fedora, FOSS

How to create bridges on bonds (with and without VLANs) using NetworkManager

Some production systems you face might make use of bonded network connections that you need to bridge in order to get VMs onto them. That bond may or may not […]

27 July, 202010 August, 2021Fedora

How to create Linux bridges and Open vSwitch bridges with NetworkManager

My virtual infrastructure Ansible role supports connecting VMs to both Linux and Open vSwitch bridges, but they must already exist on the KVM host. Here is how to convert an […]

21 May, 200921 May, 2009FOSS, Tech

Telstra NextG working with MF626 USB modem

Essentially, these devices are detected as a SCSI CD device so that Windows and Mac users can install the drivers and software to make the device work and connect to […]

7 May, 20097 May, 2009FOSS, Tech

Internet by way of the Dodo

I’ve been helping a friend at work get Linux on her laptop. I installed Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope 9.04 as this is quite good for new users (and we have a […]

19 April, 200919 April, 2009FOSS

Whatever did we used to do?

These days everyone wants a graphical interface for this and for that, including a network manager to well, manage your network connections. Back in the days when wireless hardly ever […]