hi, on lsb_release -rd Description: Fedora release 39 (Thirty Nine) Release: 39 uname -rm 6.6.6-200.fc39.x86_64 x86_64 i have this net device lspci | grep Ethernet | grep 05:00 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I211 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03) i enable persistent naming; in kernel cmdline, "... net.ifnames=1 ..." the interface is renamed/created during boot dmesg | grep "renamed from eth" [ 6.945108] igb 0000:05:00.0 enp5s0: renamed from eth0 i've created a udev rule to set IPv6 params cat /etc/udev/rules.d/01-enp5s0-sysctl.rules ACTION=="add|bind|change", SUBSYSTEM=="net", KERNEL=="enp5s0", \ RUN+="/sbin/sysctl -qw \ net.ipv6.conf.enp5s0.forwarding=0 \ net.ipv6.conf.enp5s0.accept_ra=1 \ net.ipv6.conf.enp5s0.use_tempaddr=1 \ " but, immediately after boot, exec sysctl \ net.ipv6.conf.enp5s0.forwarding \ net.ipv6.conf.enp5s0.accept_ra \ net.ipv6.conf.enp5s0.use_tempaddr returns the values, unchanged, net.ipv6.conf.enp5s0.forwarding = 0 net.ipv6.conf.enp5s0.accept_ra = 0 net.ipv6.conf.enp5s0.use_tempaddr = 0 otoh, if i exec at shell, udevadm trigger sysctl \ net.ipv6.conf.enp5s0.forwarding \ net.ipv6.conf.enp5s0.accept_ra \ net.ipv6.conf.enp5s0.use_tempaddr the values are changed net.ipv6.conf.enp5s0.forwarding = 0 net.ipv6.conf.enp5s0.accept_ra = 1 net.ipv6.conf.enp5s0.use_tempaddr = 1 what's keeping my udev rule from setting up the interface sysctls on boot? -pgnd