The culprit is intramfs. Starting with 20 LTS, having an AOE device brings in local_top/aoe, which calls configure_networking . This causes dhcp configuration of the primary net interface, which screws up all network later (as this physical interface is part of the bridge, and bridge can't get a dhcp lease later).
AOE stands for "ATA over ETHERNET", not ATA over IP. There is zero need to bring up ip stack for aoe to function. ** Also affects: ubuntu-core-initramfs Importance: Undecided Status: New ** No longer affects: isc-dhcp (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to isc-dhcp in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1905472 Title: Something starts dhcclient for every intrface on boot Status in ubuntu-core-initramfs: New Bug description: After upgrade frpm 18LTS to 20LTS I've lost the network. Network is managed by ifupdown Netplan is not installed Network manger is disabled (masked) Yet, at boot, SOMETHING starts dhclient for every network interface. This has disastrous results - dhcp request succeeds on physical interface that is a base for a vlan-based interface, causing real dhcp request on to fail on vlan interface. Expected behavior - dhclient starts only for interfaces marked as dhcp in /etc/network/interfaces . ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: isc-dhcp-client 4.4.1-2.1ubuntu5 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-29.31~20.04.1-generic 5.8.14 Uname: Linux 5.8.0-29-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.12 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip Date: Wed Nov 25 00:07:45 2020 SourcePackage: isc-dhcp UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-core-initramfs/+bug/1905472/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp