dhcpcd-discuss

Hi

On 2014-09-08 15:20, Joe M wrote:
> I am using dhcpcd 6.4.3 on gentoo.
>
> The "man dhcpcd" says that wireless interfaces have a metric of 200 +
> if_nametoindex + 100.
> But, I do not see +100 added to my wireless interface.
>
> I am running wpa_supplicant as a different process and not through
> dhcpcd. I am not sure if that could cause this issue.
>
> $ sudo ip route show | grep --color --ignore-case wifi
> default via 192.168.1.1 dev wifi0  metric 203
> 192.168.1.0/24 dev wifi0  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.1.132
> metric 203

I'm going to guess that you don't have WEXT support compiled into your 
kernel :)
I should really try and write some code to work out SSID via the new 
cfg80211 kernel options, but that will probably add more bloat than I 
want to dhcpcd.

Roy