This is still an issue. I like the idea of deleting the bond (e.g. "networkctl delete bond0" during the "netplan apply" call. But as stated before by daxtens, we need to make sure not to bring down critical interfaces, that might be in use.
We could either only apply this only to interfaces, that are not marked as "critical: true" in netplan or hide it behind a "--force" parameter to "netplan apply". We should also investigate if there might be other options in more recent versions of systemd-networkd to make it apply new bond parameters without bringing down the interface. Closing the "nplan" component, as that package is no more in any recent series of Ubuntu. ** Changed in: netplan Status: Confirmed => Triaged ** Changed in: netplan Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: nplan (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to systemd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1746419 Title: bond parameters are not changed by 'netplan apply' Status in netplan: Triaged Status in nplan package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in systemd package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: I have a yaml file as follows: network: version: 2 ethernets: bonddevs: match: name: ens[78] bonds: bond0: interfaces: [bonddevs] parameters: mode: active-backup mii-monitor-interval: 1 addresses: - 10.10.10.1/24 Say I decide that 1s is too frequent for the MII interval, and I want to change the interval to 2s. If I change that in the yaml, then run # netplan generate # netplan apply # cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0|grep "MII Polling Interval (ms)" MII Polling Interval (ms): 1000 In other words, the change has not been applied. Running netplan --debug apply prints: DEBUG:device bond0 operstate is up, not replugging So I wondered if bringing the bond down would help. It does not: # ip link set dev bond0 down # netplan apply # cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0|grep "MII Polling Interval (ms)" MII Polling Interval (ms): 1000 However, deleting the link works: # ip link del dev bond0 # netplan apply # cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0|grep "MII Polling Interval (ms)" MII Polling Interval (ms): 2000 This is counter-intuitive behaviour. Ideally, I would like a regular netplan apply to work without deleting the bond. However, a changed to the docs to make this clear would be OK. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 Package: nplan 0.32~17.10.1 ProcVersionSignature: User Name 4.13.0-32.35-generic 4.13.13 Uname: Linux 4.13.0-32-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.7 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Jan 31 05:47:42 2018 ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=C.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: nplan UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/netplan/+bug/1746419/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp