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Re: DHCP fallback address

Some additional information:
running dhclient directly (stopped the NetworkManager before) with the dhclient.conf works as expected, which is why I'm blaming NM for this problem.

I also decided to check the source files (https://github.com/NetworkManager/NetworkManager) and found what might be causing the problem:

the parser is quite bad. it doesn't ignore sections (starting with '{') but it ignores the '}' symbol. Also, if you have an "interface" inside the section, it gets ignored.
I understand there are reasons to ignore the "timeout" and "retry" directives because at least the timeout should be controlled by the NM, but where do I set that?



On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 at 11:51, Bruno L. Albrecht <brunolalb gmail com> wrote:
Hello all,

I've been struggling with some configuration here and hope you could give me a hint.

Currently using 
  • Ubuntu 18.04,
  • kernel 4.15.0-43-generic,
  • NetworkManager version 1.10.6,
  • dhclient version isc-dhclient-4.3.5

Installed Ubuntu in a virtual machine (Virtual Box) and edited the network connections to have a Host only adapter, disabled the DHCP on VirtualBox.

My objective: to configure the DHCP client's fallback address and timeout.

What I did: edited the /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf to contain a lease option for the mentioned network adapter with a specific IP address.

I attached a few files:
  • dhclient.conf
  • dhclient-enp0s8.conf (check lines 42-43, where the lease should end)
  • journalctl.txt (output of "journalctl -u NetworkManager" after stopping the dhclient app and restarting the NetworkManager service)
Seems like the NetworkManager is incorrectly overwriting the dhclient.

Any other info I should send?

Best regards and happy 2019!
Bruno

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  Eng. Bruno Landau Albrecht
  e-mail/G-Talk: brunolalb gmail com


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  Eng. Bruno Landau Albrecht
  e-mail/G-Talk: brunolalb gmail com
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