On 17/03/2014 10:18, Mick wrote: > On Monday 17 Mar 2014 03:21:38 eroen wrote: >> On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 22:15:59 +0200, Alan McKinnon >> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> You have various choices >>> >>> - an orthodox network manager like wicd or nm >>> - a minimal network manager like connman >>> - /etc/init.d/net* scripts supplied by OpenRc >>> - no manager, do it manually >> >> Why doesn't anyone ever mention using dhcpcd for managing connections? >> It and its accompanying openrc init script are installed on almost >> every gentoo box anyway. For simple setups it should Just Work(TM) >> out-of-box. > > I can't find an /etc/conf.d/dhcpcd file. Will it use the /etc/conf.d/net > file > settings, or just try to bring up all and any /etc/init.d/net.* symlinks and > get an IP address from any listening dhcp server? >
I haven't used dhcpcd for a some years now, so YMMV: It doesn't have an init script, it's started by OpenRc's net.* scripts. If they are blank, OpenRc assumes a dhcp-managed interface and starts the configured dhcp provider. dhcpcd is the default for this. So, if you create /etc/init.d/net.eth0[1] and add nothing to /etc/conf.d/net, dhcpcd is most ikely what you are going to be running. [1] For the purposes of this thread, let's just assume that udev's naming-shenanigans don't exist, we all know what we mean by "eth0" -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
