dhcpcd-discuss

Emil Renner Berthing wrote:
> I've been playing a bit with dhcpcd-dbus/dhcpcd-ui and I really like the 
> idea
> that the dhcp daemon should keep track of the state of your network
> interfaces.

Well, for IPv4 anyway :)

> However dhcpcd-dbus version 0.4.0 doesn't seem to respond to introspection
> properly. It only sends the first sizeof(xml) bytes of the reply, where 
> xml is
> a char pointer. That is 4 or 8 bytes depending on your architecture.
>
> Also there are some XML formatting errors, but I've fixed it in the
> attached patch.

Applied, thanks!
dhcpcd-0.4.1 released.

> Next up I'd like to figure out why dhcpcd thinks a network cable is
> connected when I first modprobe e1000e, the module of my ethernet card 
> (eth0),
> even though cat /sys/class/net/eth0/carrier returns 0.

That would be a driver bug I guess, but I'll try and replicate it over 
the next few days with my various network cards.

Thanks

Roy