diff --git a/src/libsystemd/sd-bus/bus-socket.c b/src/libsystemd/sd-bus/bus-socket.c
index 61539313bce..4eaecffa856 100644
--- a/src/libsystemd/sd-bus/bus-socket.c
+++ b/src/libsystemd/sd-bus/bus-socket.c
@@ -620,13 +620,10 @@ static void bus_get_peercred(sd_bus *b) {
 
         /* Get the list of auxiliary groups of the peer */
         r = getpeergroups(b->input_fd, &b->groups);
-        if (r < 0) {
-                if (!IN_SET(r, -EOPNOTSUPP, -ENOPROTOOPT))
-                        log_debug_errno(r, "Failed to determine peer groups list: %m");
-
-                b->n_groups = (size_t) -1;
-        } else
+        if (r >= 0)
                 b->n_groups = (size_t) r;
+        else if (!IN_SET(r, -EOPNOTSUPP, -ENOPROTOOPT))
+                log_debug_errno(r, "Failed to determine peer's group list: %m");
 }
 
 static int bus_socket_start_auth_client(sd_bus *b) {
diff --git a/src/network/netdev/netdev.c b/src/network/netdev/netdev.c
index 199e9111286..93648e1be0b 100644
--- a/src/network/netdev/netdev.c
+++ b/src/network/netdev/netdev.c
@@ -647,7 +647,7 @@ static int netdev_load_one(Manager *manager, const char *filename) {
         r = config_parse_many(filename, network_dirs, dropin_dirname,
                               "Match\0NetDev\0",
                               config_item_perf_lookup, network_netdev_gperf_lookup,
-                              CONFIG_PARSE_WARN, netdev_raw);
+                              CONFIG_PARSE_WARN|CONFIG_PARSE_RELAXED, netdev_raw);
         if (r < 0)
                 return r;