dhcpcd-discuss

Re: dhcpcd 7.0.5 not noticing downed interfaces?

Jason A. Donenfeld

Fri Jun 15 22:07:29 2018

On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 10:17 AM Roy Marples <roy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On NetBSD, IP addresses don't send on the wire when carrier goes down
> and validate themselves (ARP, ND, etc) when the carrier comes back.
> Thanks to the kernel doing this, dhcpcd does not need to remove the
> addresses (and thus routes) when the carrier goes down.
> This means that client side applications don't behave a LOT better if
> the carrier flips a bit - like say on a wireless network.

Oh, that's neat. How does this work with resolvconf though? I'm
guessing you still have to listen to events for calling -a and -d?

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