Am 16.06.2013 11:20, schrieb Thomas Bächler: > Am 16.06.2013 11:00, schrieb Jouke Witteveen: >> On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Thomas Bächler <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Am 16.06.2013 10:35, schrieb Jouke Witteveen: >>>>> What this doesn't mention is that it also reads DNS servers from Router >>>>> Advertisements, which the kernel cannot do by itself. dhcpcd does not >>>>> perform dhcpv6 as far as I know. >>>> >>>> I'm not sure; it might do so nowadays. Does dhclient read DNS servers >>>> from RAs in IPv4 mode? >>> >>> I haven't check what dhclient does, but dhcpcd is definitely not a >>> dhcpv6 client. >> >> http://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd/wiki/DhcpcdFeatures >> >> It says it is > > That's interesting, I haven't seen the manpage refer to this at all. It > lists the RFCs for everything it supports: DHCP, BOOTP, Router > Solicitation - no mentions of dhcpv6. > > And then, there's the source code: dhcpcd-5.6.8/ipv6rs.c, line 819ff: > > if (rap->flags & (ND_RA_FLAG_MANAGED | ND_RA_FLAG_OTHER)) { > if (new_data) > syslog(LOG_WARNING, > "%s: no support for DHCPv6 management", > ifp->name); > > So, if your router advertises that dhcpv6 is available ("managed" or > "other" flag), dhcpcd simply prints "no support for DHCPv6 management" > to your syslog.
Oh, the git version seems to implement dhcpv6.
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