Disabling DHCP client

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During our testing, we discovered that DHCP client is always active, independent on systemd-networkd settings. Even with networkd disabled (systemctl disable systemd-networkd), the board still acquires IP address when connected to a network.

Configuring with static IP address:

$ cat /etc/systemd/netword/wired-network
[Match]
Name=eth0
[Network]
Address=192.168.111.177/24
Gateway=192.168.111.1
DNS=192.168.111.1

gets two addresses: one from DHCP, one static.

So, the simple question is: How is the DHCP client started? How to enable / disable it when needed?

Configuration: Based on Toradex’ reference image

Colibri-6: $ su -c tdx-info.sh
Password:

Software summary
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Bootloader:               U-Boot
Kernel version:           5.4.193-rt74-5.7.3-devel+git.49e4130e2197 #1 SMP PREEMPT_RT Tue Apr 11 21:14:29 UTC 2023
Kernel command line:      user_debug=30 ubi.mtd=ubi root=ubi0:rootfs rw rootfstype=ubifs ubi.fm_autoconvert=1 console=tty1 console=ttymxc0,115200n8 consoleblank=0
Distro name:              NAME="TDX Wayland with XWayland RT"
Distro version:           VERSION_ID=5.7.3-devel-20230823013514-build.0
Hostname:                 colibri-07131122
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Hardware info
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HW model:                 Toradex Colibri iMX6ULL 256MB on Colibri Evaluation Board V3
Toradex version:          0036 V1.1A
Serial number:            07131122
Processor arch:           armv7l
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  • Open connmanctl
  • Identify the service you want to configure
    services
  • Configure Static IP
    config <service_identifier> --ipv4 manual <ip_address> <netmask> <gateway>
  • Exit connmanctl
    quit
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Hi Alex, thank you for the leads. It seems connman is different animal than networkd, as only disabling networkd, and setting static from connman made DHCP disappear.

Now I have to find out an API for it (or find out which files this is stored into).

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the command-line utility for ConnMan (Connection Manager), stores network settings, including assigned static IP addresses, in service configuration files. These files are typically located in the /var/lib/connman/ directory. Within this directory, each network service or profile has its own folder named after the network service identifier, such as ethernet_00142d613d12_cable , and contains a settings file where configurations like static IP addresses are saved.