[systemd-devel] networkd-218 seems to ignore .link files

[Andrew Cooks]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 6:46 AM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh at inai.de> wrote:

>
> On Monday 2015-01-12 18:29, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> >> In systemd-218, I have configured the following testcase:
> >>
> >> /etc/systemd/network# ls -al
> >> total 20
> >> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 11 18:14 .
> >> drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jan 11 16:23 ..
> >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   96 Jan 11 18:14 99a-ether.link
> >
> >Hm, isn't this just a problem of 99a-ether.link being ordered after
> >99-default.link?
>
> Well, the manpage states: "All link files are collectively
> sorted and processed in lexical order", with that, I would assume
> that 99a, being processed after 99, would override 99.
>
> >It works for me when naming it 98-ether.link instead.
>
> Not in my case. I have a feeling networkd won't touch
> [08:00:27:0a:c5:b2]'s interface name because it has already
> been named by udev to enp0s3 before networkd got a chance to run.
> Could that be it?


I'm having a similar problem while running systemd version-219. Did you
work out what was wrong?

My link file is ignored even when I symlink
/etc/systemd/network/99-default.link to /dev/null. I don't see anything
interesting in 'journalctl'.

# udevadm info /sys/class/net/eth0
P: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0/0000:01:00.0/net/eth0
E: DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0/0000:01:00.0/net/eth0
E: ID_BUS=pci
E: ID_MODEL_FROM_DATABASE=RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
Contror
E: ID_MODEL_ID=0x8168
E: ID_NET_DRIVER=r8169
E: ID_NET_NAME_MAC=enx000db936008c
E: ID_NET_NAME_PATH=enp1s0
E: ID_OUI_FROM_DATABASE=PC Engines GmbH
E: ID_PATH=pci-0000:01:00.0
E: ID_PATH_TAG=pci-0000_01_00_0
E: ID_PCI_CLASS_FROM_DATABASE=Network controller
E: ID_PCI_SUBCLASS_FROM_DATABASE=Ethernet controller
E: ID_VENDOR_FROM_DATABASE=Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
E: ID_VENDOR_ID=0x10ec
E: IFINDEX=3
E: INTERFACE=eth0
E: SUBSYSTEM=net
E: SYSTEMD_ALIAS=/sys/subsystem/net/devices/eth0
E: TAGS=:systemd:
E: USEC_INITIALIZED=53326


# networkctl status --no-pager eth0
��● 3: eth0
   Link File: n/a
Network File: n/a
        Type: ether
       State: off (unmanaged)
        Path: pci-0000:01:00.0
      Driver: r8169
      Vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       Model: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
  HW Address: 00:0d:b9:36:00:8c (PC Engines GmbH)
         MTU: 1500


# cat /etc/systemd/network/01-mgmt.link
[Match]
Path=pci-0000:01:00.0
Type=ether

[Link]
Name=mgmt
MACAddressPolicy=persistent
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