dhclient traditionally (pre-openrc) and as currently documented in /usr/share/doc/openrc-0.6.0-r1/net.example claims to be able to supply arguments to dhclient. An example of arguments someone might want to support include supplying the "-6" flag to get ipv6 dhcp-based statefull ip address assignment (yes, I am aware of stateless assignment and I don't want to), but really the exact reason is irrelevant. However, in /lib64/rc/net/dhclient.sh, it does not attempt to read the \$dhclient_${IFVAR} variable (unlike, say, dhcpcd.sh). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. echo 'dhclient_eth0="-6 -lf /var/lib/dhclient/dhclient6.leases"' >> /etc/conf.d/net 2. echo 'config_eth0="dhclient"' >> /etc/conf.d/net 3. /etc/init.d/net.eth0 -D restart Actual Results: Attempts to get an ipv4 dhcp address because those argument were not present. Expected Results: Attempts to get an ipv6 dhcp address because those arguments were present. Contents of my /etc/conf.d/net file which should (and used to) give me both IPv6 and IPv4 DHCP ------------------- dhclient_eth0="-6 -lf /var/lib/dhclient/dhclient6.leases" config_eth0="dhcp dhclient" dhcp_eth0="nodns" ------------------- Patch to solve the problem: ------------------- --- /lib64/rc/net/dhclient.sh~ 2010-02-25 22:34:08.000000000 -0500 +++ /lib64/rc/net/dhclient.sh 2010-02-25 22:33:47.000000000 -0500 @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ # Get our options # These options only work in Gentoo, and maybe RedHat + eval args=\$dhclient_${IFVAR} eval opts=\$dhcp_${IFVAR} [ -z "${opts}" ] && opts=${dhcp} ------------------- Oh, and BTW openrc also doesn't load the ipv6 module in time for this to work even if this bug were solved. I had to manually autoload it. 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Created attachment 225669 [details, diff] 0.6.1-r1 patch Since my system lost its IPv6 address, I checked and found that the upgrade from 0.6.0-r1 to openrc 0.6.1-r1 continued the problem. Is dual stack dhcp really too much to ask for?
http://roy.marples.name/projects/openrc/changeset/316a316d9b8e8fb8ea7f05b5b70367dde15cb5d5
This is fixed upstream. Thanks, William
