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  1. Bug #1714933
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Tobias Wolf (towolf) wrote : Xenial: Please merge upstream fix for networkd to "accept colons in network interface names"

PR: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/5117

issue: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/4057

Before the networkd from 231 was backported, it was possible to use interface alias names that contained a colon, e.g. eth0:1. This is commonly used to make legacy tools like "ifconfig" work, because they *expect* a colon in the interface name.

Martin told me to file a bug for this.

Merging networkd from 231 lead to a regression where valid configs were not accepted anymore after the backport. Please merge that fix for the regression.