Eric MSP Veith wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> while integrating InitNG with my system I have come across a problem I cannot
> solve myself. It is connected to net/ip, daemon/dhcpcd and system/netmount.
> net/net uses the /sbin/{ifup,ifdown} scripts to bring the interface up (and
> down respectively). Digging into these scripts, I found that they will start
> the DHCP client if needed. However, the script daemon/{dhcpcd,dhclient} also
> exisits, so I assume that these scripts are added to let InitNG control the
> client daemons if started up. system/netmount needs a working network
> interface, so it depends on virtual/net. That's clear to me.
>
> Now here comes the problem: I added daemon/dhcpcd because my link is
> configured via DHCP and I want InitNG to control the DHCP client. I also use
> system/netmount to mount remote /home directories. On system shutdown, the
> DHCP client is killed before the NFS shares are unmounted, since
> system/netmount does not depend on daemon/dhcpcd. However, NFS shares cannot
> be cleanly unmounted without a working link.
>
> I solved this problem until now by adding "provide = virtual/dhcp" to
> daemon/dhcpcd and "use = virtual/dhcp" to system/netmount. Is this a correct
> solution or should it work another way?
>
> Thanks for the fish. :-)
> EMSPV
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If I have understood your posting correctly you want to get an IP via
dhcp right?
if yes you don't need dhcpd (which is a dhcp server) but dhclient.
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