dhcpcd-discuss

Hi Tim

On 21/01/2021 12:16, Tim Tassonis wrote:
> Some months ago, I have downgraded from dhcpcd 9 to 8 due to issues with 
> network-manager. As I am now refreshing my systems, I was wondering about the 
> status of the two pieces working together.
>
> Is anyone using dhcpcd together with network-manager currently, and if so, how 
> can they make to work together?
>
> If it only disabling privsep, I'm totally fine with that, as I never really saw 
> the upsides compared to the added complexity for a network daemaon mainly 
> performing privileged operations.

It's not quite that simple :)

You need dhcpcd-9.3.3 or better and the patch here:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/merge_requests/668

Hopefully merged upstream soon so NetworkManager can enjoy dhcpcd-9.

Roy