dhcpcd-discuss

On 2016-06-06 23:57, Andrew Somerville wrote:
> I am using wi-fi via netctl to automatically connect to my wireless
> network.
>
> In my journal -b I see the line:
>
> dhcpcd[1637]: read_lease: truncated lease
>
> Looking at dhcp.c [1], I see that it says:
>
>  /* Ensure the packet is at lease BOOTP sized
>  * with a vendor area of 4 octets
>  * (it should be more, and our read packet enforces this so this
>  * code should not be needed, but of course people could
>  * scribble whatever in the stored lease file. */
>
> But I have not scribbled anything into a lease file; it is only what
> was automatically generated.
>
> Is this normal behaviour?

No, it's not normal.
If you're running 6.11.0 and not trunk you need these patches.
http://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd/info/3fd740f3ed17e902
http://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd/info/02a6de136d9afe1b

> I am trying to resolve intermittent wi-fi disconnects (carrier loss).

I don't have any patches to resolve that, carrier loss is a kernel side 
thing handled by dhcpcd.

Roy