[Dnsmasq-discuss] Serving multiple addresses via DHCPv6

[aloysius at eclipso.eu]

From: Simon Kelley <simon at thekelleys.org.uk>

> Best of luck. The DHCPv6 protocol allows this, in theory, but how it
> should work in practice is not really settled, in my experience. Do you
>
> have a DHCPv6 client that will do the work? All the clients I've tested
>
> seem to only request or expect a single address.
>
> dnsmasq-2.66 includes a serious rewrite of the DHCPv6 code which allows
>
> it to offer multiple addresses. You should use that, or preferably the
> 2.67test releases, to have any chance of success.
>
>
> Certainly don't expect it to "just work", but do report back on
> the
> results of your efforts: we may be able to help further, and improve
> dnsmasq in the process.

Using 2.67 I tried using an ULA range (with and without static leases) and a global range.
Windows 7 worked perfectly, taking both addresses assigned via dhcpv6.
Linuxmint 15 (networkmanager 0.9.8) worked well only if the first address is served via dhcpv6
and the second one via slaac; if both ranges are dhcpv6 it does something weird: it assigns the
ULA address to the interface, flushes it and then adds the other one.

Haven't tested this with Symbian as I wished, but I doubt it's of interest to anyone.