On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 12:43:08PM -0800, Jian Yang wrote:
> From: Mahesh Bandewar <[email protected]>
>
> Traditionally loopback devices comes up with initial state as DOWN for
> any new network-namespace. This would mean that anyone needing this
> device (which is mostly true except sandboxes where networking in not
> needed at all), would have to bring this UP by issuing something like
> 'ip link set lo up' which can be avoided if the initial state can be set
> as UP.
How useful is lo if it is up, but has no IP address? I don't think
this change adds the IP addresses does it? So you still need something
inside your netns to add the IP addresses? Which seems to make this
change pointless?
Andrew
