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Joran

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Rebooted into no network. Twice.

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How do you create a network bridge for virtual machines on a current Ubuntu, given the desktop tools will not do it?

Locked myself out twice before learning the discipline: never apply a network change without a way back that does not depend on the network.

On a machine with a screen that means being physically at it. On a remote box it means a scheduled revert that runs in ten minutes unless you cancel it, or a console through the provider. Bridge configuration reassigns the interface you are connected through, so a mistake is not a slow failure, it is instant and total.

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