On Monday 17 Mar 2014 09:55:11 arnaud gaboury wrote:
I guess someone will have to ask about it, either in the mailing list or irc, I haven't done so before because systemd-{nspawn,networkd} have lots of new functionality and I'm not sure I understand them all.
After I related this issue (interfaces not being UP) on the systemd-devel mailing list, Tom Gundersen did a commit yesterday nite to change this behavior. So if you run systemd-git, just upgrade and interfaces will now be UP, and you will be able to get rid of your hack.
I don't get this: it seems normal to me that the interface would be down until it's configured by the container, pretty much like on a normal machine. The only situation in which you can expect an interface to be up already is in a network-booting situation, in which the initramfs configures the interface. In a virtualised situation, this is like the host configuring the container's interface for it. Anyway, no big deal either way for me. Paul