DCHP, NetworkManager and Random IPv6 addresses

[Mark Elkins]

On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 16:41 +0200, JP Viljoen wrote:
> On 03 Dec 2012, at 4:38 PM, Mark Elkins <mje at posix.co.za> wrote:
> > Just a tad off topic, but...
> > 
> > on a Gentoo Laptop, I have NetworkManager 0.9.4.0 (compiled with dhcpcd)
> > connecting to wired and wireless networks. I also have random IPv6
> > generation working (nice!).
> > 
> > Before NetworkManager, the Hooks in dhcpcd used to work just fine but
> > now dhcpcd is called with the "-c /usr/libexec/nm-dhcp-client.action"
> > option so hooks are ignored.
> > 
> > My hook was to update the forward DNS with the current IP addresses
> > (both v4 and v6) and I kinda miss that functionality.
> > 
> > Any suggestions.
> 
> '''/etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d''', from the man page.
> 
> -J

Good clue (though I've been there)
Works for wired but not wireless. Environmental variables are set for
wired configs - eg "DHCP4_IP_ADDRESS" but don't exist when the same
simple script is called via a Wireless interface coming up.
I do see the info in '/var/log/messages' but I think at a later stage of
the whole process.
I was also hoping that as I saw in my /var/log/messages files references
to Router Advertisements, that my IPv6 addresses might also be available
in the shell environment - but alas....
(not running DHCPv6 daemon on my network yet?)

Also, any clues to building a custom resolv.conf (half from DHCP, half
static)?

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