All,

I'm trying to get IPv6 support on my ARM-based Linux box and I'm running into 
issues with DHCPv6.  I can't get an IPv6 address with DHCPv6.  I'm not sure at 
what point the problem is occurring, so I'm starting out confirming that I have 
everything configured correctly for Busybox before going to the next step.

Setup:
ARM-based controller running Linux kernel 5.4.81
Busybox 1.31.1 with the following related networking configuration settings 
(let me know if there are more settings that you would like to know about):
CONFIG_FEATURE_IPV6
CONFIG_IFUP
CONFIG_IFDOWN
CONFIG_FEATURE_IFUPDOWN_IPV4
CONFIG_FEATURE_IFUPDOWN_IPV6
CONFIG_FEATURE_IFUPDOWN_EXTERNAL_DHCP
CONFIG_IP
CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_ADDRESS
CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_LINK
CONFIG_FEATURE_IP_ROUTE
CONFIG_PING
CONFIG_PING6

I am using ifplugd for link detection and I am using dhcpcd for an external 
DHCP client.

On the other end, I have an Ubuntu 18.04 server setup with isc-dhcp-server.  I 
have one instance setup as a DHCPv4 server and separate instance setup as a 
DHCPv6 server.  I've confirmed with a Windows 10 laptop that the 
isc-dhcp-server can issue IPv4 addresses and global IPv6 addresses.

At the moment I have nothing specified in /etc/network/interfaces for IPv6.  I 
tried adding the line:

iface eth0 inet6 dhcp

But then I found out that ifup in Busybox does not support the dhcp option.  
However, I am still seeing that dhcpcd is attempting to get an IPv6 address.  
Do I need to add anything to /etc/network/interfaces to support DHCPv6?

When I restart networking, I see the following line:

eth0: soliciting an IPv6 router

but I see no other messages about IPv6 and my system does not get a global IPv6 
address.  I did confirm that log message comes from dhcpcd, so it has started 
and is attempting to get an IPv6 address.  Is there anything else that needs to 
be modified from ifplugd or ifup so dhcpcd gets called with the correct options?

Thanks,
Bryan

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