Raw IP interface support under Linux

[Bjørn Mork]

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 ;-)


Bjørn