Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 22:14:05 +0100
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
To: ~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Cc: Nathan Angelacos <nangel@alpinelinux.org>
Subject: Re: Proposed system change: Use dhcpcd as default DHCP client
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On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 15:19:22 -0500
Nathan Angelacos <nangel@alpinelinux.org> wrote:

> In my use case, I just install dhcpcd and move on.  It is bigger, but
> it "just works".  
> 
> No objections to pushing the other features upstream, but if we want
> something for the next release, I wonder if giving the user the option
> is viable.  We already do that with the choice of ssh and ntp; do we
> let the user choose?  (if you have IPv4, this is smaller; if you need
> DHCPv6-PD, this is your choice, etc.)

I think it would be nice if we could support both. With the small
udhcpcd as the default. busybox ifupdown will use dhcpcd if its there
or fall back to if its not. Users who needs dhcpv6 could get get dhcpcd.

That way we can give a bare minimal for those who only needs a simple
networking setup. dhcpcd could be pulled in with network-extras meta
package.

My ISP does not seem to provide ipv6 yet, and I don't have much
experience with it. Might need some help with the setup scripts to
handle ipv6.

-nc