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Configure local link at same time as DHCP

Davesh Patel

Fri Jul 17 14:29:18 2020
Hello,

Is it possible to configure dhcpcd to do local link addressing in parallel
to DHCP?

 At the moment, dhcpcd sends DHCP discover and waits for that to timeout
before using the local link IP.

But what I'm trying to achieve is for dhcpcd to start to configure local
link address by sending ARP probe, etc (i.e. not wait for DISCOVER timeout)
and, at the same time, send a DHCP discover to try to obtain an IP from a
DHCP server. If a DHCP discover was not available, then it will stick with
the IPv4LL; otherwise, the DHCP IP would 'overwrite' the IPv4LL IP.

Is that possible at all?
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