Bug#910693: systemd: systemd-networkd.service / network.target does not wait for IPv6LL to make a network device ready

[Michael Biebl]

[CCing the bug report]

Am 10.10.2018 um 01:33 schrieb Michael Pietsch:
> Thanks this solved the problem. I literally searched for hours but not
> once stumbled about the need to use systemd-networkd-wait-online because
> I thought it was about the link-local address and not the
> systemd-networkd itself.

I think the wiki page I referenced explains it rather well.
But improvements to the documentation are always welcome.

> From a user perspective it might help if the man page would explicitly
> say that the network might not be fully configured after this service is
> started and you have to use systemd-networkd-wait-online.service.
> 
> Greeting another Michael :D
> 
> Am 10.10.2018 um 0:44 schrieb Michael Biebl:
>> Am 09.10.18 um 23:33 schrieb michael at mi-pietsch.de:
>>
>>> The service file is
>>> ```
>>> [Unit]
>>> Description=BIND Domain Name Server
>>> Documentation=man:named(8)
>>> After=network.target systemd-networkd.service network-online.target
>>> Wants=systemd-networkd.service network-online.target network.target
>> Please drop
>> Wants/After=systemd-networkd.service
>> You don't want a dependency on a specific network configuration in your
>> unit files.
>>
>> What you need is to actually make network-online.target delay until the
>> network is configured.
>> You thus most likely want to use
>> systemctl enable systemd-networkd-wait-online.service
>>
>> network-online.target by itself does nothing. It needs services which
>> hook into network-online.target and delay the target until network is
>> configured.
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>


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