dhcpcd-discuss

On 06/06/2014 15:53, Meran Ahmad wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thank you very much for that quick reply.
> > But I would ask why you want to do this?
>
> I am writing an network manager API in for raspberry pi. in this API,
> I want to be able to set the IP manually or by dhcp. Now if the dhcpcd
> is running regardless to my manual inputs once the “wpa_supplicant”
> established the connection dhcpcd will on its own start dhcp request.

Oh I see.
So basically I've given you the tools to do that :)

Basically your API just wants to read the dhcp config (via getconfig and 
getconfigblocks),
write the chosen config back to dhcpcd and then issue a reconfigure 
command.

I would leave the default as DHCP enabled but allow for static IP as you 
say.
BTW, do you use DBus on the PI for anything else? I can demonstrate a C 
library with the same level of features as dhcpcd-dbus that talks 
natively via sockets.

Do you have a link to this project that I can reference? I have a pi 
myself, just using a XMBC front end.

Roy