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[Karunamon]

As I opened this article, I thought "I bet this is going to be related to some Goddamned systemd change".

And sure enough, about halfway through:

>This interface has an IP alias, set up through systemd's networkd.

The amount of pain and headache this init-kitchen-sink-wannabe-thing has caused me day-to-day is incalculable.

[JdeBP → Karunamon]

Of course, that does not say that this was a systemd change, and reading this very discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17151686 shows that you lose your bet.

[amyjess → Karunamon]

Multiple IP addresses on an interface have been a thing since long before systemd existed.

I remember using iproute2 to add multiple IP addresses to devices at my very first job in 2007. systemd didn't even come out until 2010.