nixpkgs/modules/services/networking/dhclient.nix

{ config, pkgs, ... }:

with pkgs.lib;

let

  inherit (pkgs) nettools dhcp lib;

  # Don't start dhclient on explicitly configured interfaces.
  ignoredInterfaces = ["lo" "wmaster0"] ++
    map (i: i.name) (lib.filter (i: i ? ipAddress) config.networking.interfaces);

  stateDir = "/var/lib/dhcp"; # Don't use /var/state/dhcp; not FHS-compliant.

  dhclientExitHooks = pkgs.writeText "dhclient-exit-hooks"
    ''
      echo "$reason" >> /tmp/dhcp-exit
      echo "$exit_status" >> /tmp/dhcp-exit

      if test "$reason" = BOUND -o "$reason" = REBOOT; then
          ${pkgs.glibc}/sbin/nscd --invalidate hosts

          # Restart ntpd.  (The "ip-up" event below will trigger the
          # restart.)  We need to restart it to make sure that it will
          # actually do something: if ntpd cannot resolve the server
          # hostnames in its config file, then it will never do
          # anything ever again ("couldn't resolve ..., giving up on
          # it"), so we silently lose time synchronisation.
          ${pkgs.upstart}/sbin/initctl stop ntpd
          
          ${pkgs.upstart}/sbin/initctl emit ip-up
      fi

      if test "$reason" = EXPIRE -o "$reason" = RELEASE; then
          ${pkgs.upstart}/sbin/initctl emit ip-down
      fi
    '';
  
in

{

  ###### interface

  options = {
  
    networking.useDHCP = mkOption {
      default = true;
      merge = mergeEnableOption;
      description = "
        Whether to use DHCP to obtain an IP adress and other
        configuration for all network interfaces that are not manually
        configured.
      ";
    };
  
  };


  ###### implementation
  
  config = mkIf config.networking.useDHCP {

    jobAttrs.dhclient = 
      { startOn = "network-interfaces/started";
        stopOn = "network-interfaces/stop";

        preStart =
          ''
            # dhclient barfs if /proc/net/if_inet6 doesn't exist.
            ${config.system.sbin.modprobe}/sbin/modprobe ipv6 || true
          '';

        script =
          ''
            # Determine the interface on which to start dhclient.
            interfaces=

            for i in $(cd /sys/class/net && ls -d *); do
                if ! for j in ${toString ignoredInterfaces}; do echo $j; done | grep -F -x -q "$i"; then
                    echo "Running dhclient on $i"
                    interfaces="$interfaces $i"
                fi
            done

            if test -z "$interfaces"; then
                echo 'No interfaces on which to start dhclient!'
                exit 1
            fi

            mkdir -m 755 -p ${stateDir}

            exec ${dhcp}/sbin/dhclient -d $interfaces -e "PATH=$PATH" -lf ${stateDir}/dhclient.leases -sf ${dhcp}/sbin/dhclient-script
          '';
      };

    environment.systemPackages = [dhcp];

    environment.etc =
      [ # Dhclient hooks for emitting ip-up/ip-down events.
        { source = dhclientExitHooks;
          target = "dhclient-exit-hooks";
        }
      ];

  };  
  
}