dhcpcd-discuss

Hi Jason

On 24/06/17 22:35, Roy Marples wrote:
> On 24/06/2017 22:20, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 09:30:20AM +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
> > > What dhcpcd is supposed to do is to use the lease on the interface with
> > > the lowest metric when there are multiple active leases with the same IP
> > > address.
> >
> > This behavior is really not good in practice and does not work well for
> > me. What I'd prefer to see is that the IP address is assigned to *both*
> > interfaces, so that when the one with the lower metric goes down (i.e. I
> > unplug the ethernet cable so it falls back to wifi), the connection
> > keeps working and simply falls back to the next one. This would really
> > solve many of my problems.
>
> I'm happy to entertain the idea.
> Why don't you post a task at https://dev.marples.name and I'll see if I 
> can do something over the weekend for it.

As it turned out my evening and morning plans went completely to pot 
thanks to an issue outside of my control so I had some unexpected time 
to look into this.

I created a task here:
https://dev.marples.name/T126

And an initial patch here:
https://dev.marples.name/D122

I've only tested this on Linux-4.4.
I'll test on the BSD's over the course of the week as they need to work 
to before this is committed.

Please review and test.

Roy