dhcpcd-discuss

Re: run-hooks being spawned every time router advertisement is received (every 5 seconds)

Roy Marples

Wed Apr 18 19:41:31 2018

On 18/04/2018 19:17, Ivan Middleton wrote:
I've found (using dhcpcd 6.11.5 on Raspbian stretch) that dhcpcd-run-hooks is being run every time my router sends a router advertisement, which is every 5
seconds. This doesn't seem appropriate, especially as each advertisement is identical.

dhcpcd runs the hooks at every event, even if the prior one was identical.

Is this expected behavior?

Yes.

A better question to ask is why is your router sending an advertisement every 5 seconds?

Roy

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