Re: Grrrr ... dhcpd6



Gene Czarcinski <gene czarc net> writes:

> OK, anyone have any experience sending commands, requests etc. via dhclient?

Well, if you ask me (OK, you didn't, but I am answering anyway :-) then
the IPv6 support in the ISC dhclient is far from mature enough to be
used for anything yet, and it moves at a pace which... I don't think it
will ever become useful outside simple lab experiments.  The PD support
is unconfigurable.  There is no support for PPP interfaces. Both of
these are show stoppers.  IMHO, you have *no* DHCPv6 support worth
mentioning without them.

And this is not because these features are difficult to add.  There have
been feature requests and patches circulating for years.  Here's one
example: https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/dhcp-users/2010-April/011624.html

Being able to configure an IA_NA address on an ethernet interface is
just not enough.  Look further and plan for the other features you
*must* support.  Using the ISC dhclient is a dead end.

I believe the ISC development model just does not work anymore.  It
belongs in another millennium.  Sorry.

Hmm, looking at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=626514 it
seems that Redhat is using a heavily patched ISC dhclient, fixing these
shortcomings.  But I wonder if they are prepared to take over as
upstream?  If not, then I suggest that NM development look for other
options, or the DHCPv6 support will be unmaintainable on any non Redhat
distribution.


Bjørn


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