TIP: Complete network stack without net.* scripts

[gabrielg]

Hi!

Some advice sought on this matter: I am using iwd (with its native DHCP client) and dhcpcd for ethernet networking management. It all works well, and much better than my last set up (wpa_supplicant, netifrc, ifplugd).

However, link detection stops working under a specific scenario: if my system is plugged in on ethernet, I suspend to disk, unplug and then resume the system, dhcpcd does not detect that the ethernet link disappeared and thus the routes stay and networking doesn't work until I do a rebind or plain dhcpcd restart. Wireless works, but with ethernet routes, it doesn't get me anywhere.

Is there any config setting I may be missing? If not, what is the best way to execute a dhcpcd --rebind after resuming my system, since I don't see any hooks for s2disk/resume?

Thanks!

[Hu]

How are you triggering the suspend-to-disk? My first suggestion would be to use the wrapper script /usr/bin/hibernate (from sys-power/hibernate-script) to initiate the suspend. It can be configured to use in-kernel hibernate, s2disk hibernate, or tuxonice hibernate. The configuration file can also specify shell snippets to run on suspend or resume, which you could use to explicitly execute the rebind operation.

[gabrielg]

Thanks, Hu - I'm triggering s2disk with elogind. I was looking into your proposed solution until I bumped into this: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Elogind#Hook_scripts_to_be_run_when_suspending.2Fhibernating_and.2For_when_resuming.2Fthawing

So... I will try that before exploring the hibernate-script. Two options is plenty! Thanks a lot!