dhcpcd-discuss

On 07/04/2014 04:57 AM, Roy Marples wrote:
> dhcpcd --nopfxdlg
> dhcpcd --pfxdlgonly --script ""

Patch (as fetched from fossil) seems to work.

One side-note is that you (well _I_) have to run the commands in the 
opposite order or the prefix-only invocation just times out. I'm 
presuming that the comcast server thinks its a dupe or something and it 
doesn't answer again.

So this is bad:

> dhcpcd --nopfxdlg
> dhcpcd --pfxdlgonly --script ""

But this works for me:

dhcpcd --pfxdlgonly --script ""
dhcpcd --nopfxdlg

It's gonna suck to integrate this into the Gentoo daemon startup and 
control scheme.

In a perfect world this would happen using a single internal 
fork()/clone() option like --prefixchild (or whatever) that forks off a 
child thread (On linux using clone(CLONE_THREAD,...) instead of just 
fork() so that it dies when it's parent is killed). But in that perfect 
world there'd be a way to predict which child ran first, or at a minimum 
that both were ready to receive before the first packet was sent.

I'll work on a modified startup script, for now I'm manually starting 
things. Good thing I don't have to reboot very often.

Thanks for making this work. 8-)

-- Rob.