[Bug 1990542] Re: initrd starts dhclient on interfaces that are not supposed to get an IP address

[Benjamin Drung]

No, aoetools is not at fault here. The initrd does not take your netplan
configuration into account. You could specify the ip= kernel parameter
to let the initrd setup your network as you want it, but initramfs-tools
does not have any support for brigdes as far as I know.

If you do not need/use aoetools, then you can just remove that package
or specify "ip=off" on the kernel command line to disable configuring
the network in the initrd.

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Title:
  initrd starts dhclient on interfaces that are not supposed to get an
  IP address

Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in netplan.io package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  After trying several setups, I think this is a bug. If not - I can't
  find how to fix things.

  Setup: Ubuntu 22.04, with ubuntu-minimal installed (which depends on
  isc-dhcp-client). A network with a bridge interface. This can be
  anything, even an old /etc/network/interfaces file will do. For
  simplicity, the following netplan setup is used:

  network:
      version: 2
      ethernets:
          enp4s0:
            wakeonlan: true
              dhcp4: no
              dhcp6: no
      bridges:
        br0:
          interfaces: [enp4s0]
          dhcp4: yes
          dhcp6: yes
          parameters:
            stp: false
            forward-delay: 0

  
  What happens:
  Starting this machine will, during initrd phase, make dhclient fetch an IP address for enp4s0. Then netplan takes over and fetches an address for br0. If both enp4s0 and br0 have the same IP address from the DHCP-server, the machine will not be reachable.

  What should happen:
  enp4s0 should not get an IP address, as the netplan-configuration clearly says.

  A workaround is to remove isc-dhcp-client (which, in turn, removes
  meta-package ubuntu-minimal) and run update-initramfs -k all -u;
  afterwards, the dhclient in initrd is (obviously) not there anymore.

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