On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 4:01 PM, Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार) <mahe...@google.com> wrote: > > Now that you have made me aware of some use cases that do want the > loopback device to be DOWN, could we use a global sysctl to dictate > the loopback behavior during init? e.g.
Yeah, it is never about which way is better, it is all about if we could break the existing assumption. This is a similar situation to the inconsistent behavior of the per-netns sysctl's between IPv4 and IPv6, there were multiple fixes or complains about it in this mailing list, but we still don't change it yet.
