On Tue, 14 Nov 2023 at 01:19, vom513 <vom...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello all, > > So back a while I had tried out a 10.0 snapshot (before the recent RC1). I > noticed that IPv6 didn’t work as it had been for me on 9.3 for example. I > was going to post a message/question but never got around it. > > After installing 10.0 RC1 on a system yesterday, I now see a warning at boot > time if you try to use ip6mode=autohost. I.e. no more rtsol and no more > kernel handling of RAs. It’s mentioned there to use dhcpcd to handle this > now. > > In my home network, I have a mix of DHCP and static for IPv4. For IPv6, I do > SLAAC only (no DHCPv6). Both M and O flags set to 0 in RAs. > > So because of this I only want dhcpcd to do the “bare minimum” and behave > like autohost used to. I.e. send an RS, take the RA, configure an address > and set the default route. > > In rc.conf I put: > > dhcpcd=YES > dhcpcd_flags=“-6 hme0” # Not that it matters but this is a sparc machine… > > On a reboot, I see the prefixes picked up, but then a pause, and eventually > dhcpcd exit’s 1. The end of the boot messages tell me that a job failed. > I’m assuming it was sending DHCPv6 requests and getting nothing and bailed. > > So after this, I have addresses and a route, but dhcpcd is not running. So > beside the ugly boot error message, these addresses and this state won’t > persist indefinitely (i.e. if my prefix changes etc.) as dhcpcd is NOT > running in the background at this point. > > So after reading and poking around, I added “nodhcp6” to /etc/dhcpcd.conf. > This seemed to get the behavior I was after. > > So this message is to possibly help others in a similar/same situation - but > also to ask - is there a more elegant way to do this ? I scoured the > dhcpcd(.conf) man pages and couldn’t really come up with any other way (i.e. > pure command line arguments). > > Thanks for any info or other experiences.
Hi To have dhcpcd to remain running in manager mode to avoid that exit you'll want -M in dhcpcd_flags /etc/defaults/rc.conf has dhcpcd=NO dhcpcd_flags="-qM" # For ifconfig_XXX=dhcp. and setting dhcpcd_flags in rc.conf will overwrite that, so dhcpcd_flags="-qM -6 hme0" should work for you (you might want to drop -q if you prefer more chatty boot output :) Thanks David
