dhcpcd-discuss

Re: Where is my duid file?

Roy Marples

Wed Apr 08 15:52:35 2020

On 08/04/2020 11:30, Stéphane Veyret wrote:
I have a simple non urgent question, just for curiosity, because
everything is working well. I wonder why I have no
/var/lib/dhcpcd/duid file in one of my computers. Lease and secret
files are present in the /var/lib/dhcpcd directory.

creation of duid has been improved in newer releases, esp dhcpcd-8.1.7 onwards.
In a nutshell, dhcpcd doesn't think it can use the interface to create a DUID-LLT from, so it created a DUID-LL instead which is not saved to disk.

Roy

References:
Where is my duid file?Stéphane Veyret
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