Package: ifupdown Version: 0.8.13~bpo8+1 Severity: important Hi,
This is related to the bug #832134 I've updated ifupdown to 0.8.13~bpo8+1 on jessie and I now get the following error when running the ifup command: Jul 23 15:32:41 ithil sh[2600]: Error: either "dev" is duplicate, or "-tentative Jul 23 15:32:41 ithil sh[2600]: Could not get a link-local address Jul 23 15:32:41 ithil sh[2600]: Failed to bring up eth0. dhclient is started (only one time this time) with the following command: /sbin/dhclient -v -pf /run/dhclient.eth0.pid -lf /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.eth0.leases -I -df /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient6.eth0.leases eth0 Config in /etc/network/interfaces: # The primary network interface allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp iface eth0 inet6 dhcp Laurent Bigonville -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_BE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)