Problems connecting to the NAS without a router

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I have a NAS that was always connected to my computer directly (10Gb) instead of going through my router.

I’ve reinstalled EOS recently, and I can’t connect to it anymore. It’s probably a silly mistake I’m making, but I’ve done everything I could think of in the past 4 hours and couldn’t fix it.

In my previous installed EOS, I used to run the following to initiate the connection:

sudo ip address add 169.254.5.0/24 broadcast + dev ens6f1

And after that, I used to either open smb://169.254.5.49 or mount it with NFS.

When I check the NAS, it tells me that the ip address is still 169.254.5.49, and that the subnet mask is 255.255.0.0. I don’t know why I had /24 before, but I tried /16 as well, and it didn’t work.

This is what I get from the ip address command:

6: ens6f1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:1b:21:d7:fb:e9 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    altname enp2s0f1
    inet 169.254.5.0/24 brd 169.254.5.255 scope link noprefixroute ens6f1
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

The showmount -e 169.254.5.49 command tells me “clnt_create: RPC: Unable to receive”, ping says that the destination is unreachable, and when I try to open the smb path, the file manager says “no route to host”. I also can’t open the web interface of the NAS.

I guess I simply don’t have an active network between these two devices. What should I do?

Thanks for the help!

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Don’t set your IP to .0. Pick one of the other 253 available options.

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Thanks. It’s working now!
How come it used to work with 0 in the past, but not anymore?

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I don’t think it could ever have worked that way. Are you sure you aren’t mixing up the subnet with the IP or something?

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That’s the exact command I had stored in a bash script in the past and used [relatively] frequently.
Maybe there was something else overriding it in my previous setup without me knowing.

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You can also permanently assign the address. You don’t need to do it every time.

Just add the IP address through Network Manager.

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