dhcpcd(8) setup problems

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

All,

so dhcpcd is the next great thing after sliced bread, I hear, and I 
am trying to set up a late-September netbsd-5 installation with it... 
hasn't gone too well, so far.

The machine wants to start ntpd and ypbind during network startup. From setting

dhcpcd=YES      dhcpcd_flags="-d"

I gather that dhcpcd backgrounds itself right after being started, 
then continues to try and acquire an IP address.

Apparently, on this machine (a 500 MHz PIII), network daemons get 
started before dhcpcd is successful, i.e. we seem to have a nice, 
nasty race condition here. And while dhcpcd is rich on commandline 
options, I could not find a way of keeping it in the foreground until 
it has secured an IP address.

dhclient, OTOH, just works.

Unfortunately, there is little information on the daemon beyond the 
man pages - <http://www.netbsd.org/docs/network/dhcp.html> is still 
ISC, only.

What important bits am I missing?

        hauke

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