On Mon, 13 Oct 2025 19:18:30 +0300 =?UTF-8?Q?Martin=2D=C3=89ric_Racine?= <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jul 2025 07:26:54 +0000 =?utf-8?q?Roni_V=C3=A4yrynen?= > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Package: ifupdown > > Version: 0.8.44 > > Severity: important > > Tags: ipv6 > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > Interfaces documentation page for testing still mentions the stateless > > DHCPv6 option availability when using inet6 auto. > > This should use DHCPv6 to obtain things like DNS and NTP servers from > > DHCPv6 while using autoconfigured v6 address for the interface. > > > > Since deprecation of isc-dhcp-client and replacement with dhcpd-base, this > > no longer seems to work. With following configuration: > > > > auto eth2 > > iface eth2 inet6 auto > > dhcp 1 > > > > Networking service fails to start with following errors: > > The above can be fixed 2 ways: > > Option 1: > > iface eth2 inet dhcp > (remove dhcp 1) > > This handles DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 simultaneously. > > Option 2: wait for a patch to ifupdown to pass --inform6 to dhcpcd to > strictly implement stateless DHCP.
The dhcpcd package in Testing now implements some of the changes that the ifupdown maintainer had requested. At this point, the only thing missing is ifupdown passing the passive option to dhcpcd, and I think that the ifupdown maintainer already has implemented that. Martin-Éric
