05:56 <Guest23> Is there anyone that can assist me in getting my beaglebone black connected to my computers shared wifi?

16:20 <Guest448> With Debian 10.3, I don't see dhclient running.  What software is handling getting an IP address from the network's DHCP server?

16:21 <zmatt> Guest448: connman

16:21 <zmatt> (the bullseye (debian 11) testing images use systemd-networkd instead)

16:24 <Guest448> zmatt, I've removed connman and am using /etc/network/interfaces (needed two addresses on one interface which I don't think connman supports last I knew), and it's working but I'm unclear about how the lease gets renewed when using interfaces file.

16:26 <zmatt> dunno about the ancient ifupdown... it's barely a network manager, I'm quite sure it uses an external dhcp client

16:26 <Guest448> I see that /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.leases is created but doesn't seem to be updating.  I'm wondering if I need to run dhclient if I'm going to use the interfaces file perhaps.

16:26 <zmatt> I don't like connman either, but I use systemd-networkd instead

16:27 <Guest448> Does systemd-networkd support binding multiple addresses to an interface?

16:27 <zmatt> yep, no problem

16:27 <zmatt> you can add multiple [Address] sections

16:28 <zmatt> I have some notes on converting a beagleboard.org debian buster image to use systemd-networkd: https://pastebin.com/3tjj3v3R

16:29 <zmatt> systemd-networkd is quite flexible: https://manpages.debian.org/buster/systemd/systemd.network.5.en.html

16:31 <Guest448> Good to hear.  Your notes look pretty straightforward.  Is there an ETA on when testing becomes stable? (using testing in production makes managers nervous)

16:31 <zmatt> for the bullseye images? no idea if there's an ETA for that, you'd need to ask jkridner or rcn-ee

16:32 <zmatt> a new stable image has been rather long overdue

16:32 <zmatt> (but I don't know what's the holdup)

16:38 <zmatt> for what it's worth, we've been using systemd-networkd in production (on beaglebones) for more than 5 years now

16:44 <Guest448> zmatt On Buster?

16:44 <zmatt> yep

16:44 <zmatt> and even stretch before that I think

16:45 <Guest448> I think we finally got rid of all our stretch instances (hope so)

16:45 <zmatt> yep, ditto

16:47 <Guest448> Although we use BBBs for all kinds of different one-off things such that I wouldn't be surprised to find one in a closet that still has stretch.

16:47 <zmatt> hehe

16:47 <zmatt> buried treasure!

16:51 <Guest448> For production we use the BB Industrial, so just to keep ourselves well-versed with the BBs as much as possible, if we need any sort of computing device, we first reach for the BBB for stuff around our lab (i.e., non-production).  But it does mean sometimes they get put to use in obscure jobs and locations and forgotten about. :-)