[Dnsmasq-discuss] Can't figure out how to assign static IPv6 addresses to clients

e9hack e9hack at gmail.com
Tue Oct 2 21:53:08 BST 2012


Am 02.10.2012 21:52, schrieb Simon Kelley:
> On 02/10/12 14:56, Dan Williams wrote:
>> So you really want to reconfigure either dnsmasq or radvd to set the
>> "M" (Managed) flag, which will tell the clients to get their address
>> from DHCPv6, not generate one from the RA prefix option.
> 
> Dan is right, and the way to do this in dnsmasq is to define a dhcp-range, and set the
> global enable-ra flag. That will send RA (for the default route) with the M flag set (no
> SLAAC address). If you want SLAAC addresses _as_well_ as DHCPv6 assigned ones, add the
> "slaac" keyword to the dhcp-range. That clears the M flag.

That's wrong. The M flag is for DHCPv6 only. It says nothing about SLAAC. SLAAC is
available, if a prefix is advertise.

Regards,
Hartmut






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