dhcpcd-discuss

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 5:10 AM, Roy Marples <roy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.
>

It is working for me. Wonderful job!

>
> > 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.
>

Thank you so much for consideration :)

>
> Roy
>