Raw IP interface support under Linux

[Loic Poulain]

On Mon, 2 Nov 2020 at 10:16, Bjørn Mork <bjorn at mork.no> wrote:
>
> Loic Poulain <loic.poulain at linaro.org> writes:
> > On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 at 19:46, Bjørn Mork <bjorn at mork.no> wrote:
> >> Loic Poulain <loic.poulain at linaro.org> writes:
> >>
> >> > Currently, network interfaces with ARPHRD_RAWIP sa_family type are
not
> >> > supported by dhclient (contrary to e.g. udhcpc):
> >> >
> >> >     dhclient: can't create /var/db/dhclient.leases: No such file or
directory
> >> >     dhclient: Unsupported device type 519 for "rmnet_data1"
> >> >
> >> > Is there any plan to add such support? Or any known limitation to
not add this?
> >>
> >> I don't think there are any such plans.  But it's not difficult to
> >> fix. I made a proof-of-concept patch 5 years ago:
> >>
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2015-December/msg00044.html
> >>
> >> This is Linux only, but I guess those raw-ip network drivers are too
;-)
> >
> > Thanks for your input, IMHO, your patch could be merged with very
> > little changes. Not sure about the right upstream path but I assume
> > community changes should go through https://gitlab.isc.org. If you
> > don't plan to do it yourself, would you mind if I try to get your work
> > merged upstream?
>
> I don't mind at all. On the contrary.  It would be nice to have this
> merged.
>
> You may consider the patch MPL-2.0 licensed like the rest of isc-dhcp,
> if that's important to anyone.

Thanks, here is the merge request:
https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/dhcp/-/merge_requests/66

Regards,
Loic
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