On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 12:22:11PM -0600, Roy Bixler wrote:
> I wonder if anyone has thoughts on the following article, which is a
> summary of various proposals in Debian to replace ifupdown, which has
> maintainability issues:
>
> https://lwn.net/Articles/989055/
>
> Proposed successors are ifupdown2, ifupdown-ng as well as the heavier
> options network-manager, systemd-network or netplan.

I should clarify that I first ran into netplan when trying to
configure the Debian AWS cloud images to use sysvinit instead of
systemd. I found out that it's actually an abstraction layer and it
can use either systemd-networkd or network-manager as a backend to
make changes in the networking. As such, it's not really an
independent choice, but it's Canonical/Ubuntu's effort to replace
ifupdown.

It seems to me that ifupdown-ng shows the most promise, but I'm not
sure if it's 100% compatible with ifupdown configurations.

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Roy Bixler <rcbixler@???>
"The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the
sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment."
-- Richard P. Feynman