INFO: firewall/dummy nic not persistent

[mike....@beardon.com]

Hello all,

Putting our new BBB3.0 server behind NAT, I found I needed to configure the loopback nic following https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/administration/firewall-configuration/#configure-a-dummy-nic-if-required

This apparently isn't persistent (Ubuntu 22.04), and so videos were not getting recorded somehow.  I solved the problem by creating a file for the netplan.  You have to put it in cloud.cfg.d so the netplan file gets built and itself is persistent:

/etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/99-bbb-looopback.cfg:

network:

  version: 2

  renderer: networkd

  ethernets:

    lo:

      addresses: [ "127.0.0.1/8", "my-ext-ip-addr/32" ]

Hope that's useful!

[Jean Pluzo]

Hi,

thanks for the info. This will be useful in the future.

Regards,

J