Package: ifupdown Severity: wishlist Hi,
I just stumbled across a unfortunate circumstance with ifupdown. If a host is configured to DHCP adressing and you then change it to static adressing the dhclient will still be running. This will lead to an address-change on the given interface, once the lease expires, because dhclient will reconfigure the interface. Therefore I would request to kill a DHCP-client, if the interface for which it was started, is reconfigured to static adressing. I don't know if this is possible, because I don't know if ifupdown is doing some state tracking, but if not a possible solution could eventually look like that: Interface eth0 is brought up, which uses static addressing. Therefore we check if any dhclient is running which watches eth0 (Don't know how this works for other dhclients, but dhclient3 gets the interface as argument, so this should be fairly easy to determine) and kill it. Any drawbacks with that suggestion? Best Regards, Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
