dhcpcd-discuss

Hi

> I would work your conf.d/net on the assumption that NO dhcp client is 
> installed so dhcp is never tried.
>
> modules="!dhcp"
>   

Aha - not tried it yet, but that makes a lot of sense!

> When using dhcpcd, you only want the net.foo scripts to handle hotplugging of 
> wireless interfaces (to start wpa_supplicant).
>   

Did I already point out that I seem to be getting a bit of extra 
hotplugging for free?

Using
   rc_hotplug="net.wlan"

Is apparently also hotplugging my net.lanX scripts as well - did I get 
the syntax wrong?


> dhcpcd-5 is designed to configure your entire IPv4 network, including 
> interaction with PtP interfaces such as PPP and VPN.
> OpenRC-0.5 only ships with a networks script by default to configure the lo 
> interface as dhcpcd-5 now handles everything else.
>   

Yeah, that looks cool.

However, I'm not quite sure I can see where this is going yet?  So if 
I'm on openrc 0.50, what would be the equiv of the current net:

   config_eth1="null"
   config_eth2="null"
   config_wlan0="null"
   bridge_br0="eth1 eth2 wlan0"
   config_br0="192.168.105.83 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast
   192.168.105.255"
   routes_br0="default via 192.168.105.254"

ie, create a bridge and give it a static IP.

Is dhcpcd supposed to bring up that bridge?  How is it supposed to 
allocate static ips or more unique/advanced features of a given interface?

Can dhcpcd help with the situation of having multiple outbound routes 
with different priorites?

These are no doubt dim questions, please be gentle...

> If the documentation is lacking, please provide patches to it so others benefit 
> :)
>   

Would be happy to.

You have some web versions of the man pages - do you think we might have 
a master index for all of those?  They are very good, but often I'm not 
sure what to search for (and I can only find them via a google search)

I was about to also suggest some kind of editable space, but I guess 
there is one through Trac already... I do suffer from it being a bit of 
a blank canvas at preset - I'm afraid to dirty it...

By the way I didn't mean to critique the documentation - what is out 
there seems excellent - however, I do find it a bit hard to navigate 
around the man pages and suffer from not really getting the 10,000 foot 
view yet

Thanks Roy

Ed W