On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 4:52 AM, Leonid Isaev <lis...@umail.iu.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 04:56:55PM -0700, James Lott wrote: >> Actually, the reason I am using dhcpcd fro mthe command line is as a >> debugging >> measure, because I originally setup a .network file for this interface to >> attempt to allow systemd-networkd to handle acquiring the DHCP lease. > > You could run networkd manually as > # SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-networkd > > but this will also show endless DISCOVER attempts. In my case, I controlled > the > DHCP server, and according to its logs the lease is actually assigned but the > client never receives it. So, I suspect a bug either in kernel or systemd > because packets get lost in the bridge (or bond in my case). I suspect the > former because restarting networkd didn't help (i.e. the DHCP lease never got > received). > >> Yuck. I'm really not a fan of netctl, and would probably sooner hack together >> some oneshot service files that manually setup the interfaces and acquire >> leases. So it sounds like systemd-networkd is not quite ready for prime time >> when it comes to being a complete interface management solution. I guess >> that's what I get for living life on the edge ;) > > Netctl is better in this situation because it allows ordering of different > profiles w.r.t. each other because they are just systemd services (in networkd > language this would be ordering of different .net* units if such existed). So > you can first set up vlans, then bridge and do the DHCP stuff. > > There is an additional problem with networkd: you never know how to order > against it. Sure there are network* targets (and ideally things _should_ work) > but they are useless in this context because they can be reached before > (virtual) devices are actually initialized. OTOH, when a netctl script > successfully returns, you know that things are properly set up. > > Hopefully this thread attracts relevant attention because I don't know how to > debug this...
Hi Leonid and James, Thanks for debugging this so far, I'll take a look next week. Cheers, Tom _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
