dhcpcd-discuss

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Roy Marples <roy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 04/02/2016 18:31, Peng Shao wrote:
> > It is working for me. Wonderful job!
>
> :D
>
> >> 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 :)
>
> And this should be fixed now as well :)
> Something I've wanted to do for some time, but this easy idea just
> popped into my head and it works!


Out of curiosity, what did you do?

Thanks,

Nick