During bookup, systemd-networkd is listening for netlink events. This socket's buffer overflows, especially on new kernels that do more things in parallel, systemd-networkd[1043]: Enumeration completed. systemd-networkd[1043]: Starting... systemd-networkd[1043]: Loaded shared library 'libbpf.so.1' via dlopen(). systemd-networkd[1043]: lo: udev initialized link systemd-networkd[1043]: enp4s0: udev initialized link systemd-networkd[1043]: Started. systemd-networkd[1043]: Notify message sent to '/run/systemd/notify': "READY=1\x0aSTATUS=Processing requests..." systemd-networkd[1043]: sd-device-monitor(n/a): Failed to get the received message size: No buffer space available ... and then network interface is left in "configuring" state forver. Workaround is to restart systemd-networkd. A solution is to increase buffer size $ cat /etc/sysctl.d/99_buffers.conf net.core.rmem_default = 1048576 net.core.rmem_max = 8388608 Packaging solution here would be to increase buffer by default. Alternative, the systemd-networkd socket could increase its buffer size to not overflow. Let me know if you wuld like a patch here for systemd instead. Cheers, - Adam