Michael Hunter writes:
> nwam_addrsrc_t has entries NWAM_ADDSRC_{DHCP, DCPV6, AUTOCONF,
> STATIC}. I initially thought that for NWAM_NCU_PROP_IPV4_ADDRSRC DHCP
> and STATIC would be valid configuration. But on second thought if the
> intention was for STATIC to be a shared configuration option between
> IPv4 and IPv6 then why isn't DHCP? Is this just because the sense of
> the option is different?
I would have expected to have separate address source controls for v4
and v6 on a given interface, rather than a single combined control as
that list seems to suggest. The behavior of v4 and v6 is slightly
different in a number of areas.
(For example, on v6, and very much unlike v4, you don't normally
choose to run DHCPv6 on your own. Instead, your local router *tells*
you whether you should run it. The only option is to refuse, and it's
probably uncommonly done.)
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