Roy Marples

Eh? dhcpcd does not talk to wpa_supplicant, nor hint at what configuration it should use, nor get any configuration from it. dhcpcd only looks at the SSID the interface is...

Or it put it in more simple terms, it's like asking the drivers manual for your car to state how the road ahead should be laid.

``` $ ifconfig iwm0 iwm0: flags=0x8843 mtu 1500 ssid "Obi-LAN Kenobi" nwkey ***** powersave off bssid de:b3:70:dc:ab:36 chan 100 address: 7c:5c:f8:59:7b:b2 media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (OFDM54 mode 11a) status: active ```...

> Yes. The above dhcpcd.conf example should be added to the manual page, along with the explanation below it, to emphasize that it merely defines the network configuration performed on...

Correct. dhcpcd can configure L3 networking for a given SSID profile - basically the IP layer. Mainly do you want DHCP or a static IP address. More specifically, dhcpcd allows...

This is something we need for dhcpcd-11 when manager mode is the only option for sure.

> ``` > # tcpdump -i eth0 -nnn port 67 or port 68 > dropped privs to pcap > tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v[v]... for full protocol decode >...

RFC 7844 > [3.1](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7844.html#section-3.1). Avoiding Fingerprinting The client intending to protect its privacy SHOULD randomize the ordering of options before sending any DHCPv4 message. If this random ordering cannot be...

I should have put these in a feature branch, but oh well. Commits b1c17c30adf5737e9319b42cd59322fec5ef7877, 1d88866d5015691c3f294d4d628be304eb755893 and 226a68edb9ac8b8178378e069eee82f6366ee329 change the default's so that dhcpcd can match dhclient a little better with...

> Can you merge them to some branch and provide config options to enable all needed and I test with this ISP? They have all been merged to master. They...