[gentoo-user] new dhcpcd behaviour

[gentoo-user] new dhcpcd behaviour

[Philip Webb]

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 ?

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.

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Re: [gentoo-user] new dhcpcd behaviour

[Bruce Hill]

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 ?
> 
> 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.

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.
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Re: [gentoo-user] new dhcpcd behaviour

[Philip Webb]

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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Re: [gentoo-user] new dhcpcd behaviour

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Mon, 3 Dec 2012 00:39:47 -0500, Philip Webb wrote:

> but I don't want DHCP running as a daemon.

The client runs as a daemon in order to be able to renew DHCP leases as
they expire, otherwise you could lose your connection. Even though it is
running as a daemon, is still a client, the server is a completely
different animal.


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Re: [gentoo-user] new dhcpcd behaviour

[Walter Dnes]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 12:39:47AM -0500, Philip Webb wrote

> >> 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 ?

  Do you have a backup dialup account like me?  That's why I have
pppconfig, which pulls in ppp.  Try "pretend depclean" and see what you
get.  E.g...

#############################################
[d531][waltdnes][~] emerge -pv --depclean ppp

Calculating dependencies... done!
  net-dialup/ppp-2.4.5-r1 pulled in by:
    net-dialup/pppconfig-2.3.17-r1
#############################################

  You might also want to try...

emerge -pv --depclean ppp pppconfig

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[gentoo-user] Re: new dhcpcd behaviour

[walt]

On 12/02/2012 09:39 PM, Philip Webb wrote:

>>> 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 ?

I notice that there is a ppp useflag.  Do you have it set?  I've found
that sometimes (for random values of sometimes) I need to do more than
just remove a useflag before portage will pay attention -- I may have to
use a "-ppp" (for example) to get portage to take notice and actually
rebuild packages that use the useflag.  No idea why, but I usually try
it just for fun.  Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's not ;)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new dhcpcd behaviour

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:36:09 -0800, walt wrote:

> I notice that there is a ppp useflag.  Do you have it set?  I've found
> that sometimes (for random values of sometimes) I need to do more than
> just remove a useflag before portage will pay attention -- I may have to
> use a "-ppp" (for example) to get portage to take notice and actually
> rebuild packages that use the useflag.  No idea why, but I usually try
> it just for fun.  Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's not ;)

Not specifying a flag leaves it at the profile default, which may be on
or off depending on the flag and your choice of profile.


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