On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 02:43:52PM +0100, Buck Horn via Dnsmasq-discuss wrote: > On 19.10.24 21:50, Glen Huang wrote: > > I have this flag set > > > > dhcp-host=example,[::10],192.168.1.10 > > > > and my machine correctly gets 192.168.1.10 for ipv4, but gets a random > > ipv6 address from the dhcp-range flag. Seems the ipv6 in dhcp-host is > > simply ignored. Any idea why that could happen? > > > Your observation would suggest that IPv6 clients in your network would > use NDP/SLAAC to acquire their IPv6 addresses. > > While DHCPv6 is roughly equivalent to IPv4's DHCP, it is not widely in > use for IPv6 address assignments.
So true. > Instead, IPv6 strongly emphasises autoconfiguration, where a client > would construct its IPv6 itself, and never request an IPv6 address from > a DHCPv6 server. There are even OSs that do not support DHCPv6 at all, > Android being the prime example. > > Kind regards, > Buck Groeten Geert Stappers -- Silence is hard to parse _______________________________________________ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss
