dhcpcd-discuss

Ho Roy

On 1/21/21 1:26 PM, Roy Marples wrote:
> 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.

Thanks a lot for the info. So, is this for privsep setup only, or for 
dhcpcd-9 in general? I decided I don't need privsep, is this still 
optional in dhcpcd-9?

Bye
Tim