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Description of problem:
dhcpcd is stopped when you do a network stop command. network calls ifdown
which kills dhcpcd by calling dhcpcd -k. The -k option sends dhcpcd a
SIGHUP which causes the lease on the IP address to be released. This is
wrong. Instead it should be sent a SIGTERM so that the cache info for the
lease is retained.

Also, the ifup script does not allow the user to specify additional options
to dhcpcd.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.service network stop
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  dhcpcd was killed with a SIGHUP instead of a SIGTERM.

Expected Results:  dhcpcd should have saved its information about its
current lease so that on next startup it would ask for its old lease.

Additional info:

A possible fix for ifdown:

 ifdown should *not* do a
                dhcpcd -k ${DEVICE}
   instead it should do a
                kill -15
   The associated fragment should look lsomething like this:
        dhcpcdPid=$(pidof -x dhcpcd)
        [ -n "${dhcpcdPid}" ] && {
                kill -15 ${dhcpcdPid}
                retcode=$?
        }

ifup should look like this instead of what it currently does.
(The initial value for DHCPCDASRGS are my customizations.)


if [ -n "${DYNCONFIG}" ]; then
    PUMPARGS=
    DHCPCDARGS='-d -R' # My example additional flags.
    if [ -n "${DHCP_HOSTNAME}" ]; then
       PUMPARGS="-h ${DHCP_HOSTNAME}"
       DHCPCDARGS="${DHCPCDARGS} -h ${DHCP_HOSTNAME}"