Bug 708866 – net-misc/dhcpcd-7.2.3 - connections dropped(?)

• Status: UNCONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Victor 2020-02-09 18:46:18 UTC]

I do not observe a log of error logs :(

for dhcp changed the client from dhcpcd to dhclient
connection drop problems are gone




Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2020-02-10 09:54:15 UTC]

Please post your `emerge --info' output in a comment.

[Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2020-02-10 09:56:25 UTC]

(In reply to Victor from comment #0)
> I do not observe a log of error logs :(

You could start by describing the problem and the type of network hardware/configuration.

Enabling the -d/--debug flag (or setting "debug" in dhcpcd.conf) should also help.

[Comment 3 Roy Marples 2020-03-01 21:52:07 UTC]

Sounds like the interface link state is flapping.

Put this at the top of /etc/dhcpcd.conf
debug
logfile /var/log/dhcpcd.log

This will produce a lot of output, but should show carrier being lost.

Basically this is an issue with your interface (or the kernel driver for it).
You could work around the issue with this config

interface eth0
     nolink

But that is really a poor solution to what could be a hardware error as well.