Hi. On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 10:14:10PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 15/02/2019 à 17:48, Reco a écrit : > > > > Why it is safe - because systemd configures NICs first, starts services > > next, and then applies kernel knobs (aka sysctl). > > Are you sure ? AFAICS, sysctl is started before networking, and NICs may be > configured asynchronously if they have allow-auto.
Now that you're asking it - no, I'm not sure. I guess I've used to specifying assorted net.ipv4.* settings for VLAN interfaces that do not exist yet at system's boot, as it "works for me"™. Reco