dhcpcd-discuss

On 06/06/2014 19:33, David Hauck wrote:
> > Ah, you didn't mention it was ok to discard the other interfaces.

I mean discard upon receipt.

> I want to make sure I understand your inference here: the dhcpcd.conf
> "interface <name>" clauses are distinct from other interfaces -
> specified or not - wrt their contents, right? That is, I could have
> something like the following
>
> ...
> interface eth1
> nogateway
>
> interface eth2
> nooption hostname
>
> And this would allow negotiation of hostname (but not gateway) for
> eth1 as well as allow negotiation of gateway (but not hostname) for
> eth2. In addition, full negotiation would occur for any/all other
> discovered interfaces (e.g., eth0, eth3, etc.)?

Exactly so. Options above the first block (interface, profile, ssid, 
etc) are considered global.

What's the likelyhood of a plugable interface coming into the mix?
I ask as what you want is probably this

# Global section
nogateway
nohostname

interface eth0
gateway
option hostname

That presently doesn't work, but it won't take much effort to allow it 
to work and facilitates hot plugging of new interfaces.
I'm actually quite curious though - what device of yours has 6 
interfaces wanting DHCP setup? I can't think of a single use case for 
such a beast!

Roy