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

[Tom Gundersen]

Hi Jan,

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 12:20 AM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh at inai.de> 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? It works for me when naming it 98-ether.link instead.

> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  241 Jan 11 18:12 brd0.network
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   56 Jan 11 18:12 brg0.netdev
>
> # cat 99a-ether.link
> [Match]
> MACAddress=08:00:27:0a:c5:b2
>
> [Link]
> Description=ethernet_link
> Alias=ether0
> Name=ether0
>
> # systemctl status -l systemd-networkd
> ● systemd-networkd.service - Network Service
>    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-networkd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
>    Active: active (running) since Sun 2015-01-11 18:14:59 EST; 39s ago
>      Docs: man:systemd-networkd.service(8)
>  Main PID: 417 (systemd-network)
>    Status: "Processing requests..."
>    CGroup: /system.slice/systemd-networkd.service
>            └─417 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-networkd
>
> Jan 11 18:14:59 jng-sfac systemd-networkd[417]: brg0            : netdev ready
> Jan 11 18:14:59 jng-sfac systemd[1]: Started Network Service.
>
>
> Why would it be ignoring the link definition file for ether0?
> If I invoke `rmmod e1000; modprobe e1000`, systemctl status has
> one extra line to say:
>
> Jan 11 18:17:52 jng-sfac systemd-networkd[417]: eth0            : renamed to enp0s3
>
>
> The L2 address is certainly correct:
>
> 2: enp0s3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group
> default qlen 1000
>     link/ether 08:00:27:0a:c5:b2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

I'm not able to reproduce this with current git.