dhcpcd-discuss

Thanks, I will try /sys/class/dmi/id/product_uuid option..

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 3:45 PM Roy Marples <roy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
>
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