Re: Diagnosing dhcpcd crashes [was Re: Looking to address two networking issues with NetBSD 10]

Roy Marples <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.network
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
 ---- On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 23:51:11 +0100  Taylor R Campbell  wrote --- 
 > > Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 21:51:53 +0000 (UTC)
 > > From: John Klos [email protected]>
 > > 
 > > We still have two large issues with networking with NetBSD 10. One is that 
 > > dhcpcd exits and needs to be restarted manually or programmatically when 
 > > it does. This issue was discussed here:
 > > 
 > > https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-net/2024/03/18/msg008729.html
 > > 
 > > It seems dhcpcd exiting corresponds to getting a new lease / IP (it 
 > > doesn't exit on networks where the address never (or rarely) changes).
 > 
 > There is an open PR tracking the difficulty of diagnosing when dhcpcd
 > spontaneously exits:
 > 
 > PR kern/57952: dhcpcd(8) inexplicably terminated in the night
 > https://gnats.NetBSD.org/57952

Have you tried a newer dhcpcd from pkgsrc?

Roy
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