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On Wed, 31 Dec 2025 16:00:45 -0400, Jim Diamond wrote:

> rpi4-4b ls -l /etc/systemd/network
> total 0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Dec  5  2023 73-usb-net-by-mac.link -> /dev/null
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Dec  5  2023 99-default.link -> /dev/null

Interesting that you have anything in that directory at all; the one
on my Debian Unstable system is empty.

This symlinking to /dev/null is called ?masking?. It explicitly
disables those service entries (originals present in
/lib/systemd/network in this case) so they cannot be
(easily/accidentally) enabled.

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