Bug 493732

Summary:	net-misc/networkmanager: default to dhclient instead of dhcpcd
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Pacho Ramos <pacho>
Component:	[OLD] GNOME	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	timo
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2013-12-09 08:43:26 UTC

Since I forgot to change the default on last bump, this is for trying to remember to change it in the next ;)
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=720077#c1

Comment 1 Patrick McMunn 2014-04-07 23:29:14 UTC

Is this bug about supporting the passing of the system's hostname to the router? I do wish NetworkManager just automatically read /etc/hosts and passed on that info, but in the meantime maybe a message can be printed out to users upon installation of NetworkManager that there is another way to ensure that NetworkManager passes that info to the router by editing /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf and adding

[keyfile]
hostname=myhostname

to the configuration file.

Comment 2 Timo Rothenpieler 2014-08-27 12:59:44 UTC

The default is still dhcpcd, which causes some trouble specialy for usage in an environment which uses DHCPv6, which isn't supported at all by the NetworkManager dhcpcd backend.

Comment 3 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2014-09-22 19:21:15 UTC

+*networkmanager-0.9.10.0 (22 Sep 2014)
+
+  22 Sep 2014; Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> +networkmanager-0.9.10.0.ebuild,
+  -networkmanager-0.9.8.8.ebuild, metadata.xml:
+  Version bump, default to dhclient instead of dhcpcd (#493732), set proper pppd
+  plugindir (#519986 by Clemente Aguiar, Sergey Popov, Agostino Sarubbo and
+  others), remove wimax support (#522822 by Dion Moult), drop old.
+