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today i learned that when #systemd gets restarted on my headless ubuntu 24.04 server, as it did with a recent update, this apparently also restarts systemd-networkd, and that kills ethernet connectivity until a reboot. since it's headless and doesn't currently have any other management options, that's never fun.

i saw that systemd-networkd was integrated with #netplan. i tried bypassing netplan and using a systemd-networkd configuration alone - which was an interesting challenge - but still, every time systemd-networkd restarts, networking is donezo. so i also tried switching to #networkmanager and ditching systemd-networkd, but then, somehow boot is delayed significantly and udisks2 fails to start (...why?!).

i have had to resort to setting up the watchdog package to reboot when network activity stops or pings fail. i don't like it, but i don't know what else to do in this distro.

also, kudos to anyone who can manage to use the term "systemd-networkd" in a post more than i did here.

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