From 8ea12e271abba87e82c41a7a424c813bae178891 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yifei Sun <ysun@hey.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:52:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] nixos/bird: start bird after network.target

---
 nixos/modules/services/networking/bird.nix | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/networking/bird.nix b/nixos/modules/services/networking/bird.nix
index 9c830a7c0cc0..d833e4803f92 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/networking/bird.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/networking/bird.nix
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ in
     systemd.services.bird = {
       description = "BIRD Internet Routing Daemon";
       wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
+      after = [ "network.target" ];
       reloadTriggers = lib.optional cfg.autoReload config.environment.etc."bird/bird.conf".source;
       serviceConfig = {
         Type = "forking";