[Bug 1910775] Re: netdev does not support the independent flag for vxlan

2021-01-15 Thread Robert Müller
Normally we would do this via netplan. But netplan lacks support of VXLAN (https://bugs.launchpad.net/netplan/+bug/1764716). Therefore the next option is to use systemd. In the current systemd version (as in focal) this happens: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/17064 and the fix suggested

[Bug 1910775] Re: netdev does not support the independent flag for vxlan

2021-01-14 Thread Dan Streetman
I understand the need for the parameter upstream, however backporting features to existing releases typically needs a bit more justification than just the fact it's nice to have. Can you explain why you can't just use the existing method (in focal) for creating a vxlan device? Specifically, setting