Hi, On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 04:57:15PM +0100, Chris Bell via GLLUG wrote: > Systemd attempts to rule the world of Debian Buster.
The usual way to define your network in Debian is still ifupdown as configured by /etc/network/interfaces so it seems to me that you are the one choosing to use systemd-networkd for ruling your world. > man systemd.network says […] > [ADDRESS] SECTION OPTIONS > > Label= > An address label. > ____________________________________________________________________ > > but there is no indication whether that should be a numerical reference or a > text string label such as DMZ. It can (and for compat should) be a text string; it is the direct equivalent of "ip address … label …". If you look in man ip-address: label NAME Each address may be tagged with a label string. In order to preserve compatibility with Linux-2.0 net aliases, this string must coincide with the name of the device or must be prefixed with the device name followed by colon. An IPv6label on the other hand is a completely different thing. It is a source address selection mechanism, like /etc/gai.conf but in the kernel. It's an interface to ip addrlabel which as you'll note is at a sompletely different command level to "ip address …". So the man page for that in iputils terms is man ip-addrlabel. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug