dhcp client does not support lease renewal

[anttikantee]

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[justincormack]

Are you really going to port a full dhcp client, or just suggest using rumprun instead?

[anttikantee]

Not sure. Some people prefer a rumprun-less single-piece environment, so maybe it's a good idea.

This piece got a bit stalled, though. I started writing a dhcp server side for testing purposes, and was quite boring ...

[justincormack]

Yeah, I was going to write one for ljsyscall... There are loads of odd corner cases with dhcp too. It might be better to find a small existing one.

[anttikantee]

why does ljsyscall need a dhcp server?

[justincormack]

same reason, need to configure interfaces...

[anttikantee]

i'd understand a dhcp client for that, but a server?

[justincormack]

oh, didnt mean server.

[anttikantee]

right ;)

so there's a port of dhpdcd to the kernel in libnetconfig, but that's lacking leases, multi-interface operation, etc. Shouldn't be too difficult to add those back.

[justincormack]

Do you think it would be acceptable to port it to netbsd so the OS has an in kernel dhcpcd? I mean ipv6 autoconf is in kernel (well much of it). Or the server part, the config side would probably have to change a lot...

[anttikantee]

Dunno, I'm happy with a non-maintained port. It's not like DHCP changes very often.