Had problems configuring the static network inside a gentoo VM. The network never came up but when I logged in and started the network.service manually it worked. Strange.
The mentioned service-file was the one here (my posting with /bin/ip): http://gentoo.2317880.n4.nabble.com/Systemd-and-static-network-td265801.html So I googled some more and used the more complex file from arch: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Configuration#Manual_connection_at_boot_using_systemd With this the VM gets connected fine now. It's even more flexible as it allows to set up multiple NICs by simply creating the corresponding config-file in /etc/conf.d
