James Carlson wrote:
Dave Miner writes:
yep - in practice i suspect the only time the ndp service will be stopped
is when the system is shutting down and its dependencies are no longer
sastisfied, so this likely won't be problematic.
I'd be a little careful there. dhcpagent gets special, late shutdown
handling[1] and having it be victimized by the shutdown of the ndp
service might prove to be a problem in getting a clean shutdown,
especially in the diskless case. Might be advisable to fix the contract
issue sooner rather than later.
It happens only if you're _not_ using DHCP for IPv4 on any interface
but you _are_ actively using it for IPv6.
I still think it's a bit of a corner case, but if you've got a
scenario where this is important, we'll figure a way into an earlier
fix.
Not quite, I think: were you to add a DHCPv4 interface after ndp has
started dhcpagent itself, I think you'd also get there (though that's
clearly not diskless). Either way, it's probably enough of a corner
case at the moment that I wouldn't worry too much, since the DHCPv6 user
base is going to be quite small for a while, but felt the need to point
out that the shutdown handling was possibly more complex than Alan was
thinking.
Dave
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