Re: [gentoo-user] new dhcpcd behaviour

[Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net>]

121202 Bruce Hill wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 03:18:38PM -0500, Philip Webb wrote:
>> I updated to Openrc 0.11.6 yesterday & on waking the machine up today
>> & starting DHCP from a terminal (as I always do),
>> instead of a long list of interactions with the router
>> there's  1  line "dhcpcd[1035]: sending commands to master dhcpcd process".
>> There's also a new display in Gkrellm 'sit0', which is new to me.
>> Everything is working, but can anyone explain the change ?

I spoke too soon (grimace)!

> My LAN has a Linux router with a simple (for now) setup
> using dhcp and unbound.  However, the sit0 is IPV4 to IPV6.
> Check for CONFIG_IPV6 in your kernel ...
> it will probably go away when you don't have that
> or ipv6 USE flags where you don't use them.

For whatever reason, mail wasn't coming in : it was going out.
I edited  /etc/conf.d/netmount  to comment 'dhcpcd' & now all's well :
it was listed by 'etc-update', so I assumed it needed authorising
-- the notes in the file are explicit -- ,
but I don't want DHCP running as a daemon.
Also, the router connection is as before & 'sit0' has disappeared.

>> Also, I have PPP installed (2.4.5-r3): do I still need this with DHCP ?
>> -- I suspect it's left over from pre-router days.
 
any advice ?

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