dhcpcd-discuss

Just thought I'd share my plans for dhcpcd-8 in a seperate thread.

Plans for 8.0 include a big ARP rewrite so that DHCP can take advantage 
of the Address Conflict Defence that IPv4LL has enjoyed for so long (you 
got this for free on NetBSD-7 so I've been a tad lazy in getting it for 
everyone, sorry about that). This is mostly finished, just requires 
final testing and should drop to the master branch over the coming weekend.

Creation of environment options will also be improved to vastly reduce 
the number of mallocs made and simplify option construction - this will 
likely require the availability of POSIX open_memstream(3). All dhcpcd 
supported OS have this, aside from sadly Solaris which ironically just 
got the final fixes to make it a pretty stable platform for dhcpcd.

Lastly, the routing system will have a simple but impactful upgrade to 
rbtree. There is already a branch with the code in, it just needs a lot 
of testing because the order of routing applied is currently different 
from what the messages give thanks to the nature of a rbtree. Any 
testers with multiple interfaces are welcome to give feedback on this.

Roy