On 2024-07-07 15:56, Daniel Gröber wrote:
From where I'm sitting ifupdown2 is completely out of the question as *the* Debian ifupdown since it doesn't even support *basic* IPv6 use-cases like DHCPv6. Upstream community seems nonexistant since this is software by a corp for a corp where community building was probably never the goal. Admittedly I didn't look very hard, this is just my impression currently.
This is quite unfair. Cumulus tried very hard to make ifupdown2 a community projects, with notably a presentation at Debconf 14 and Debconf 16. One of its killer feature is the ability to go from the running state to the target state with one command (ifreload). It never took as we prefer old broken software over something not 100% compatible and also because it is written in Python and we didn't want Python in the base installation.
Since Cumulus has been bought by Nvidia, things have changed and development of ifupdown2 is now done behind closed doors. See https://github.com/CumulusNetworks/ifupdown2/pull/271#issuecomment-1706260260
