On Sat, 26 Oct 2024 14:10:05 +0300 =?UTF-8?Q?Martin=2D=C3=89ric_Racine?= <martin-eric.rac...@iki.fi> wrote: > On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 14:07:58 +0100 Athanasius <deb...@miggy.org> wrote: > > Package: dhcpcd > > Version: 1:10.1.0-1 > > Severity: important > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > Given the pending removal of the isc `dhclient` I decided to move over > > to another method for obtaining DHCP leases. `dhcpcd`, in the form of > > `dhcpcd-base` appears to be the leading contender, so I settled on that. > > > > It works fine, but as it forks and runs in the background (if run either > > as the `dhcpcd` daemon as I am doing, or the `dhcpcd-base` non-daemon) > > it provides no feedback as to when addresses are obtained and thus > > systemd, or anything else, can't easily know when networking is up for > > the purposes of NFS mounts. > > > > I *had* been using a static IPv4 setup, utilising a > > `/etc/network/interfaces.d/<interface>` file, but had good reason to > > change this over to DHCP. With the static setup systemd's > > remote-fs.target took care of the mount without issues. > > > > As supplied use of `dhcpcd` (or -base) makes **no** attempt to ensure > > that NFS mounts happen. There's no feedback into systemd, nor is there > > any implementation of a dhcpcd hook file for this purpose. At least > > with dhclient it integrated with ifup and there's > > `/etc/network/if-up.d/mountnfs`. But this is not triggered by `dhcpcd`. > > > > I do note that I *first* tried using `dhcpcd-base`, along with `iface > > lan0 inet dhcp`, but this also did not trigger the mountnfs script. > > dhcpcd-base is executed via /etc/network/interfaces as dhclient was. > Whatever exit hooks exist within `/etc/network/if-*.d/ will be > executed as before. > > Important caveat: never install bin:dhcpcd on a host running ifupdown > since the init scripts and systemd units conflict with what ifupdown > and sytemd do. > > It's also worth noting that dhcpcd expects non-generic interface names > that follow Predictable Network Interface Names.
Btw, I assume that you are the one who filed (https://github.com/NetworkConfiguration/dhcpcd/issues/100) upstream? Martin-Éric
