dhcpcd-discuss

On 10/10/2018 19:34, Shahid Mahmood wrote:
> Hi,
> After recent upgrade to dhcpcd 7.0.8 (previously 6.11.5) the DUID value 
> is observed changing on every restart of the device.
>
> Location of duid in current version: @DBDIR/
> Location of duid in previous version: @SYSCONFDIR/
>
> The @SYSCONFDIR/ is persistent storage while @DBDIR is not.
>
> How can we restore previous behavior or otherwise prevent duid from 
> changing this often?

Make DBDIR persistent storage.
Or better yet, expose a host specific UUID via 
/sys/class/dmi/id/product_uuid on your product.

Roy