Charles Curley:
> On Wed, 18 Aug 2021 21:36:30 +0200
> Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> wrote:
>
>> Is there anything I can do about this without changing
>> /etc/network/interfaces? As far as I understand, I cannot switch to
>> systemd network configuration as long as the interfaces file exists.
>
> Can you get anywhere by editing the template?
I do not have access to the template. It does not exist on my VM and I
assume it only exists in the hosting provider's infrastructure.
> Also, this interfaces file assigns address 127.0.0.1 to the interface
> venet0. Since that block (127.0.0.0/8, I believe) is reserved for the
> loopback device (interface lo), and is assigned automatically to lo,
> this setup is assigning 127.0.0.1 to both lo and venet:0. And that
> strikes me as a recipe for problems.
I totally agree and I have no idea why they are doing it this way. I
still would like to know why systemd does not recognize that the
interface configuration using ifupdown was successful and the the system
actually is online.
J.
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