[Dnsmasq-discuss] DHCPv6 isn't working with Linux

Simon Kelley simon at thekelleys.org.uk
Thu Aug 30 16:27:03 BST 2012


On 27/08/12 20:18, e9hack wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not able to get DHCPv6 running on Linux, but Windows 7 isn't a problem. I'm using
> Opensuse 11.2 on a real PC and Opensuse 11.4 in a Virtual Box on the Windows 7 PC. Dnsmasq
> is running on a WLan router. The DHCPv6 client is ether the binary from the distribution
> or self compiled from http://fedorahosted.org/dhcpv6. I did use tcpdump to capture a few
> frames, but I don't know what is wrong on the Linux machines. One is configured for
> 'information only'. The other shall request a IPv6 lease. For this PC, I get many lines in
> the lease file with different lease time entries like:
> 
> 1346267260 100 fec0::ffff:0:0:ffff:50 VBox-Linux 00:01:00:01:dd:dd:dd:dd:dd:dd:dd:dd:dd:dd
> 1346267143 100 fec0::ffff:0:0:ffff:50 VBox-Linux 00:01:00:01:dd:dd:dd:dd:dd:dd:dd:dd:dd:dd
> 1346267016 100 fec0::ffff:0:0:ffff:50 VBox-Linux 00:01:00:01:dd:dd:dd:dd:dd:dd:dd:dd:dd:dd
> 1346266906 100 fec0::ffff:0:0:ffff:50 VBox-Linux 00:01:00:01:dd:dd:dd:dd:dd:dd:dd:dd:dd:dd
> 
Are the final fields on each line the same, or different?


Simon.





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