Created attachment 453764 [details] Output determined IP address if available Outputting the determined IP address would be more useful than "Determining IP information for eth0... done." from ifup-eth, patch attached.
I can see why this would be useful, but it's also a bit ugly, especially when dhclient-script has the address already and can print it out.
Agreed, it is somewhat ugly. Adding a simple /etc/dhcp/dhclient-up-hooks script like "echo -n $new_ip_address" would do the trick adequately (some fine tuning of the initscripts output would be harder than worth it but... meh) but I'm not sure if it would interfere with some dhclient use cases outside of initscripts. Cc'ing dhcp maintainer, how about something like this instead: ifup-eth invokes dhclient with "-e ECHO_IP=y". dhclient installs this as /etc/dhcp/dhclient-up-hooks (negated logic with || used in order to avoid non-zero exit status): #!/bin/sh [ "$ECHO_IP" != "y" ] || echo -n $new_ip_address
Ok, I have no problem with adding [ "$ECHO_IP" != "y" ] || echo -n $new_ip_address to dhclient-script.
Created attachment 481681 [details] Patch for dhcp package Ok, here's the patch for dhcp. I think using /etc/dhcp/dhclient-up-hooks is better than doing this in dhclient-script in case people want to disable the echo for some reason. The shebang is there just because the script (oddly) needs to be executable (it's just sourced, not executed). The whitespace in the echo is for nicer output when it goes between ifup-eth's output.
Created attachment 481682 [details] Revised patch for initscripts Here's the revised initscripts patch. Not tested with IPv6 as I don't have it easily available.
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I've added sample dhclient-enter-hooks into doc/dhclient/ which among others also writes out the $new_ip_address http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/dhcp.git/commit/?id=cbf79dcf165f609c302fda9f97f9a0714c76128f