Questions tagged [dhcpcd]
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dhcpcd does not send hostname, reverse DNS does not work
I am using Debian Trixie on a server. I have installed it using ZFSBootMenu documentation, without a desktop environment. The installation is quite minimal in term of packages. My motherboard has 2 ...
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Why can't ifupdown find dhcpcd?
So I have an embedded system I've built with yocto. I'm trying to enable DHCPv6. But when I try to bring the interface online, ifup says it can't find DHCPv6 software, even though dhcpcd is ...
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How to use dhcp option 12 (host-name) in dhcp server config
I have Linux system running DHCP server which assigns less than 5 leases to a similar clients, always. The connecting client can have different MAC OUI(first 3 bytes) and client uses the MAC address ...
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ARP table shows incomplete entry and connectivity lost
I have Linux device running 4.14.7 kernel. My device-A is directly connected to third-party device(Device-B) over 1Gig port. A UDHCPD server runs on dev-A which always assigns single IP address as per ...
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dhcpcd: set priority for link-local connections
I see that there is a metric keyword in the dhcpcd.conf (as explained e.g. https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/413036/47009), which allows me to set the routing priority for a given interface. However, i ...
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Unable to get IPV4 with dhcpcd on Alpine in a dual stack setup
After installing dhcpcd, the machine is unable to get IPv4 from DHCP, but generate IPv6 as expected and get DHCPv6 options (like DNS, domain, etc.); the config in /etc/networking/interfaces is auto lo ...
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dhcpcd deleting gateway
I'm trying to switch from DHCP to static IP by using dhcpcd. When I switch from static to DHCP I'm configuring that eth0 (which used to have the static address) will also be the one with the DHCP ...
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Is there an example dhcpd.conf that contains an example for each option?
OS: Debian 11 I'm attempting to create an example isc dhcpd.conf which has an entry for each option. So far I've managed to find about 30 options to include but I can't find the other ~160. I looked ...
