Re: Grrrr ... dhcpd6

[Jiri Popelka <jpopelka redhat com>]

On 10/01/2012 06:33 PM, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> One of the problems I see is that, while there are a couple of viable 
> dchp servers out there, where the ISC server is suppose to be the 
> industrial strength one, dhclient seems to be the only client for the 
> linux/*bsd/Unix systems.
>
> I wonder if there is interest in reviving the defunct dhcpv6c effort?
If you mean https://fedorahosted.org/dhcpv6/ then no.
It was also one-guy effort and David Cantrell stopped the development 
immediately after ISC dhcp-4.1.0 was released.

> Yes, there is dribbler but that seems like a one-guy effort and I do 
> not see much support for it ... yes, dnsmasq is another one-guy effort 
> but it also is popluar and has other people fixing things and 
> submitting patches.

I have no experience with Dibbler, but I believe it's a good 
implementation because Tomasz Mrugalski is very active on dhcwg at ietf.org