[systemd-devel] slow systemd-networkd DHCP client on wlan0 with systemd v217

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 03.02.15 14:15, Charles Devereaux (systemd at guylhem.net) wrote:

> My current solution with dhcpcd is a sleep service sending signals to
> dhcpcd (give back the lease/reclaim it), something which could be extended
> to systemd-networkd, with other signals for other meanings that you may not
> want by default, like:
>  - removing the configuration it did (which is currently kept when
> systemd-networkd is stopped, which could be useful in some scenarios to
> avoid asking an additional IP address every time)
>  - starting or stopping the DHCP servers services (which once started keep
> running)
> 
> Even if systemd-networkd does not support a fine grained logic as I
> regretted in another message about br0, this would at least support most of
> the basic scenarios many people will need.

I am pretty sure signals are not a particularly good interface for
this. We should add a proper bus API for this one day, but this kinda
has to wait until kdbus is a done deal, since networkd runs in early
boot, and dbus-daemon is not available in early boot.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat