Re: Import dhcpcd(8) into FreeBSD base

> On 7. Aug 2022, at 9:38 AM, Doug Rabson <dfr@rabson.org> wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure what the problem is here? I'm using dhcpcd client in my home lab with pfsense acting as dhcp and dhcp6 server and it works great, including prefix delegation. Choosing a new dhcp client in FreeBSD certainly doesn't require {pf,opn}sense to use that client.

Good, but keep in mind that your home lab is not millions of downstream users.  ;)

> Main thing that's missing for me is dynamic dns - my dhcp server updates my local DNS using ddns. This works well for ipv4 and I've been using it this way for years. For ipv6, rtsold is limited to handing advertising the local prefix. Using dhcpcd for both means I get both A and AAAA records in my local DNS which makes me happy.


Dynamic AAAA records for client leases is a problem, but isn't that also a
general issue with isc-dhcpd?  What's your main DHCP server for IPv6?

> Again, not seeing the harm for either OPNsense or pfSense - these distributions are free to choose another client.

If you want to say "not my work, not my harm" that's possibly fine, but not
well-rounded in a real world setting as indicated by your former status.

It is still a lot of work to get it working mostly like it did before and at
least one FreeBSD major release will suffer from the inferiority of switching
to a new integration.  I'm sure disrupting basic IPv4 DHCP capability which was
always working prior will come as a surprise to people involved in green lighting
this, but this is likely an unavoidable consequence of the proposal.


Cheers,
Franco