dhcpcd-discuss

Hi Daggs

On 18/09/2020 05:46, daggs wrote:
> Greeting,
>
> I'm running gentoo with openrc using dhcpcd, I have an tap interface connected to a vm which provides dhcp services.
> I've encountering an issue were dhcpcd is running but I get no ip. restarting the service results with the ip allocation.
> assuming there is no bug in openrc, I assume that either dhcpcd doesn't handles well the change of the tap from off to on or dhcpcd doesn't wait enough time for the dhcp server on guest to start.
>
> is there any config option in dhcpcd that can assists me in solving this issue?

I am unaware how to toggle tap on or off.
How are you starting dhcpcd? init.d/net.tap0 or init.d/dhcpcd?
If the former, try the latter.

If still failing add this to the top of /etc/dhcpcd.conf and email the log file

debug
logfile /var/log/dhcpcd.log

Roy