[arch-projects] [netctl][PATCH 1/2] Factor out DHCP client support

[Jouke Witteveen]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Leonid Isaev <lisaev at umail.iu.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 13:03:27 -0500
> Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:56:02PM -0500, Leonid Isaev wrote:
>> > On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 14:25:15 +0100
>> > Jouke Witteveen <j.witteveen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Support for additional DHCP clients is now easy to add.
>> >
>> > Just a quick question: are there any plans to use networkd as a DHCP
>> > backend? Yes, it is config-file-driven, but one can probably generate
>> > the .network files in /run on the fly...
>>
>> This sounds like pointless masturbation. Just use networkd directly.
>
> That's what I originally thought, and (in a nutshell) this is what I am
> currently using.
>
> However, networkd config is based on an interface name, not a profile. Hence
> there are special cases when e.g. 2 wireless networks use different settings
> (dynamic/static IP, different DNS, etc.). In these scenarios one needs
> wpa_actiond. As long as the correct profile is selected, one can make use of
> networkd instead of dhcpcd.
>

Contrary to networkd, netctl is profile based. This makes netctl
useful in changing environments.

If networkd exposes its dhcp client, this patch makes it easy to add
support for it to netctl.
Even better, if networkd exposes a lot of its functionality, netctl
could potentially drop the dependency on iproute2 (not that there is a
problem with iproute2).

There are other dhcp clients (such as udhcp) for which support can
already be implemented easily after this patch is applied.

Regards,
- Jouke