[systemd-devel] systemd-networkd questions

[Tom Gundersen]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> Tom Gundersen (teg at jklm.no) said:
>> Without criticizing any of the existing solutions, some of the things
>> that motivated my interest in this is that I think we need: something
>> easily configured via plain configuration files by a sysadmin,
>> something that would take a limited amount of space (including its
>> dependencies) so it could be reasonably used in an initrd, something
>> which would be fast/efficient, so not e.g. calling out to external
>> tools/daemons for stuff like dhcp/ipv4ll.
>
> On this specific point... are you *sure* you want to be rewriting a
> dhcp/dhcpv6 client?

I'm sure I would like avoid that :) Hopefully we'll be able to reuse
the dhcp client from connman, but as the work of converting that into
a library has not yet finished I don't know yet exactly how that will
work out. Hopefully this will become clearer very soon.

Cheers,

Tom