Ouch, quite a lot of 'learning'! Color me unimpressed, too. I've grown to enjoy NetworkManager. I know, like all things, that is probably controversial to some

Ouch, quite a lot of 'learning'! Color me unimpressed, too. I've grown to enjoy NetworkManager. I know, like all things, that is probably controversial to some. Two things I really appreciate about it: - You can 'up' a connection/interface in an idempotent way; only changing whatever is needed. - it's *very* scriptable. Values can be given with +/- operators I was surprised/frustrated with networkd initially, but enjoy it now. It getting involved with packet forwarding was an unwanted surprise during a modernization effort.