On Sat, Sep 5, 2026 at 9:44 AM Martin-Éric Racine <[email protected]> wrote:
> In any case, you're not the first one who runs into problems with > dhcpcd in manager mode AND ifupdown both installed. Given this, I'll > probably make bin:dhcpcd explicitly Conflicts with ifupdown. Fair. I'll probably then have uplinkmgr provide its own service file for dhcpcd which will allow me to order it relative to ifupdown however I need to. If you do this, though, I am curious how someone would use dhcpcd in manager mode for any kind of non-trivial topology. E.g., how would a router configure internal interfaces to prepare them for dhcpcd-mediated PD? Aside from a flat custom script one-shot at boot time, are there recommended ways of configuring interfaces other than ifupdown that won't then conflict with dhcpcd's management of the WAN interfaces? I have a hard time believing that, for example, NetworkManager or systemd-networkd will play nicely with dhcpcd's manager mode: they also seem to want to control everything.
