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ironyman

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Registered: 2019-05-03

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networkd not obtaining IP on startup even setting dhcp=ipv4

I have a softether client service(a vpn implementation) running on startup, and when it connects it brings up an ethernet interface. There's no problem obtaining IP addresses if the interface is up and I restart systemd-networkd. However it doesn't work when the machine gets rebooted. I suspect it has something to do with the startup order of the two, in which the interface has to come up first. How do I troubleshoot this? Any log available?

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: networkd not obtaining IP on startup even setting dhcp=ipv4

Any log available?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/Journal

Perhaps try

systemctl edit softether-vpn

Then add

[Unit]
After=
After=network-online.target

The supplied unit file seems to use network.target but network-online.target may be more appropriate for use with systemd-networkd, see systemd.special(7) for an explanation of the differences.

You could also try adding systemd-networkd.service to the After= list.

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