[artix-general] dhcpcd (daemon) + wpa_supplicant (daemon), with wireless bieng a failover support for wired

Dudemanguy dudemanguy at artixlinux.org
Mon Mar 30 15:21:09 CEST 2020


> @dudemanguy, what special tweaks did you do to get the failover effect with those 2 daemons only?  I just modified the arch services to behave like the S6 ones, and I wasn't even close to get the failover effect...  And as mentioned, I also tried bonding in failover mode with really awful results before, so I sort of discarded that path, but perhaps that's what you do?  Any ways, I just failed with just the 2 daemons alone on an arch laptop.  For sure I'm missing something.

No special tricks here. I only use the wpa_supplicant daemon in s6 (no 
hooks or anything). The wpa_supplicant script has dhcpcd as a dependency 
so that one is always started as well. It seems to "just work" for me. 
If I plug in ethernet, that is preferred. If I leave it wireless, then 
it falls back on the wireless connection.


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