Dear Maintainer, I have an interfaces stanza like allow-hotplug wwan1 iface wwan1 inet dhcp – but the interface does not come up when the respective device is plugged in. In bullseye (the first release I ran that device with), I hacked around it with a brief custom udev rule, but my RUN+="/sbin/ifup wwan1" no longer works. Digging around a bit, I found the following in udev(7): Note that running programs that access the network or mount/unmount filesystems is not allowed inside of udev rules, due to the default sandbox that is enforced on systemd-udevd.service. Rather than save my hack, I decided I should better figure out how allow-hotplug actually ought to work. It turns out that /lib/udev/ifupdown-hotplug in the end only executes ifup, too, and again in the context of udev. Sprinkling logger calls into that script shows that all is fine until the ifup call. A statement on the next line is never executed, presumably because udev's "sandbox" kills the parent process(es) of offenders, too. So... it would seem to me that at least on sysvinit boxes, allow-hotplug cannot really work any more. Am I missing something? If not: is there a workaround? --- up and down scripts installed: /etc/network/if-down.d: total 24 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 281 Mar 4 13:27 _psi_warmal -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 62 Mar 25 2015 ifstats lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Mar 12 09:01 jabber -> ../scripts/jabber -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 113 Jul 29 2021 monitor -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 372 Feb 24 2021 openvpn -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 323 Jan 5 2022 resolvconf -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 759 Dec 9 2022 resolved lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Feb 24 14:01 wpasupplicant -> ../../wpa_supplicant/ifupdown.sh /etc/network/if-post-down.d: total 8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 61 Oct 23 2018 block-wifi lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Feb 24 14:01 hostapd -> ../../hostapd/ifupdown.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1409 Mar 24 2016 wireless-tools lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Feb 24 14:01 wpasupplicant -> ../../wpa_supplicant/ifupdown.sh /etc/network/if-pre-up.d: total 16 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 344 Aug 11 2010 ethtool lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Feb 24 14:01 hostapd -> ../../hostapd/ifupdown.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 62 Oct 23 2018 unblock-wifi -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4191 Sep 15 2018 wireless-tools lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Feb 24 14:01 wpasupplicant -> ../../wpa_supplicant/ifupdown.sh /etc/network/if-up.d: total 56 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 965 Jan 5 2022 000resolvconf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 332 Mar 4 13:25 _psi_warmal -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 109 Feb 15 2020 _z_check_gvo_dc -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1685 Sep 22 2014 ethtool -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 99 Jul 27 2018 ifstats lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Mar 12 09:01 jabber -> ../scripts/jabber -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 264 Nov 28 2014 ledblink -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 537 Aug 22 19:49 monitor -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4938 Feb 20 2021 mountnfs -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 415 Oct 3 2019 ntpdate -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1048 Jan 17 2023 ntpsec-ntpdate -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 385 Feb 24 2021 openvpn -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4663 Dec 9 2022 resolved lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Feb 24 14:01 wpasupplicant -> ../../wpa_supplicant/ifupdown.sh