dhcpcd-discuss

Hi Peng

On 03/02/2016 14:55, Peng Shao wrote:
> (I forgot to CC the mailist, sorry about that)

It happens :)

> Wonderful! Thank you so much for the hard work. No need to hurry as this
> is not critically important at least for me, b/c I can use noipv4/6 to
> realize the same result.

Well, I think I have it fixed now, please download a new snapshot and
test it.
Basically the fix it to move interface activation to when DHCPv6 starts
on the requesting interface, not when a suitable lease arrives.

> By the way, I noticed that when PD activated an interface's ipv6 stack,
> it will automatically do the ipv4 stack as well. I am not sure if this
> is the typical desired application scenario but at least for me, I would
> prefer PD to touch ipv6 only and leave ipv4 alone because PD is strictly
> speaking an ipv6-only thing. If a hypothetical user would "disable an
> interface at first, but wouldn't mind using PD to assign ipv6 address on
> it using dhcpcd", then I think most likely that user would like to avoid
> ipv4 on this interface at all.
> 
> But this is just my thoughts and may not of course represent most of the
> users :)

No, this is a valid point, but equally we need to allow users to say
"now activate as normal" without interrupting dhcpcd.

I'll see if I can do something for this for the next release.

Roy