Gene Czarcinski <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
