Re: static-networking-service-type: Using a static network bridge

[Julien Lepiller]

The type should be a string, so "bridge" would be correct. However, it's not 
supported by guile-netlink yet, sorry. Do you think you could send me a 
scenario with iproute2 commands so I ean test an implementation?

Le 24 mars 2023 00:08:50 GMT+01:00, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli 
<GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org> a écrit :
>On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 07:24:01 +0100
>Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> wrote:
>
>> You specified type twice, with #f the last time. Maybe that's tge
>> issue?
>Sorry my bad: I messed up the indentation, so it makes it look like
>type is specified twice.
>
>When doing sudo guix system reconfigure I get that:
>> guix system: warning: exception caught while executing 'start' on
>> service 'networking':
>> Throw to key `no-such-device' with args `("lan0")'.
>> guix system: warning: some services could not be upgraded
>> hint: To allow changes to all the system services to take effect, you
>> will need to reboot.
>
>So I'll try to rephrase and split the question: Is the following correct
>to create a bridge:
>> (network-link (name "lan0")
>>               (type 'bridge)
>>               (arguments '()))
>Or is that supposed to only work on existing interfaces? Or am I
>supposed to add something inside arguments to create the bridge?
>
>The issue is that I only managed to understand what to put in name and
>type with the Guix manual. The documentation describes arguments as
>"List of arguments for this type of link.", and it then point to "Link
>in Guile-Netlink Manual" which points to
>https://git.lepiller.eu/guile-netlink/manual/manual.html#Link
>
>But it doesn't tell how the correspondence between arguments and that
>manual section is made. Do arguments expect some string? some state
>(like IF_OPER_UP?), the same arguments than type-args?, a link datatype?
>
>Though the guile-netlink documentation is very easy to use to create a
>bridge and give it an address:
>> (link-add "lan0" "bridge")
>> (addr-add "lan0" "192.168.10.7/24")
>but I've no idea how to translate that in Guix configuration.
>
>As for making a device join a bridge I'm also unsure how to do that. I
>didn't find any infos for that in the Guix manual or the guile-netlink
>documentation, so maybe that's not supported?
>
>If that's not supported, udev can still be used to run commands with
>things like that:
>> (udev-rule "bridge.rules"
>> "SUBSYSTEM==\"net\", [some way to indentify the interface], \\
>> ACTION==\"add\", \\
>> RUN+=\"/run/current-system/[...]/ip link set dev $name master
>> lan0\""))
>and it works for other things (like changing MAC addresses with
>macchanger, etc).
>
>So does udev run late enough to already have the bridge interface
>created when something like that would run? Or is there something that
>could work with Guix static-networking-service-type somehow?
>
>Thanks a lot in advance for the help.
>
>Denis.