[systemd-devel] systemd-network and loopback

[Andrea Pappacoda]

Il giorno ven 9 set 2022 alle 23:57:27 +03:00:00, Mantas Mikulėnas 
<grawity at gmail.com> ha scritto:
> It's useful when you want the `lo` interface to have a custom 
> [Address] or two.
> 
> Routers often have an address assigned that's supposed to be 
> independent from any "physical" interface – on Linux it could be 
> assigned to a Type=dummy interface or to an empty bridge, but just as 
> frequently it's assigned to `lo`. (It's even called a "loopback 
> address".)

Hi Mantas, thanks for your reply! Yes, this seems to be the kind of 
response I was looking for. So it indeed seems that in the vast 
majority of desktop systems (and servers) it is safe to leave the lo 
interface as unmanaged by systemd-network.

Thanks again for clearing this up for me :)

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