Libguestfs - Oct 2014 - Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] appliance: Use dhclient instead of hard-coding IP address of appliance.

On Thu, Oct 02, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> It seems as if it would, from reading the dhcpcd man page ..
Looks like the syntax is 'dhcpcd <interface>'.

Olaf

On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 02:10:27PM +0200, Olaf Hering
wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 
> > It seems as if it would, from reading the dhcpcd man page ..
> 
> Looks like the syntax is 'dhcpcd <interface>'.
I haven't tried it of course, but it looks from the man page like
dhcpcd will try to configure all interfaces if no interface is
specified.  It would be a great help if you could confirm this.

I'm mainly worried that we won't know how interfaces are named,
although the old code assumed eth0 and appeared to work until now.

Rich.

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On Thu, Oct 02, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> I'm mainly worried that we won't know how interfaces are named,
> although the old code assumed eth0 and appeared to work until now.
Yes. And if the appliance is booted with net.ifnames=0, or whatever
keeps systemd out of the picture, the name will be predictable.

Olaf