[Dnsmasq-discuss] DHCPv6 and MAC

[Gene Czarcinski]

I was googling around and found this:
>
> Looks like I got it working. I must admit that I was going off of 
> information back when IPv6 and DHCPv6 first came out.
>
> So it was my impression that in my DHCP server configuration I had to 
> use the old style of:
> host-identifier option dhcp6.client-id 
> 00:01:00:01:17:0B:B9:14:00:1D:60:B7:5F:D4;
> fixed-address6 FD35:4776:6804:1::1;
>
> Turns out there is now compatibility with the IPv4 style of setting 
> fixed ip addresses where a clientid / duid isn't required and I was 
> able to set it up as:
> hardware ethernet 00:0C:29:37:12:85;
> fixed-address6 FD35:4776:6804:2:1::1;
>
> I remember trying the previous a long time ago when hardware ethernet 
> wasn't allowed to be used with IPv6 but it appears that has now changed.
>
> All is well now and things are finally back on track.
>
at: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=139567

The quoted text is comment #5

The writer claims to be using dhclient and dhcpd.

The problems described are the same ones which trouble me.  Has 
something changed with the DHCPv6 standard or did the folks at isc.org 
just want something that worked?

Gene