[Dnsmasq-discuss] DHCPv6 with dnsmasq for automated deployments

Oliver Freyermuth o.freyermuth at googlemail.com
Wed Jun 6 10:04:56 BST 2018


Am 06.06.2018 um 10:36 schrieb Roy Marples:
> On 06/06/2018 09:14, Oliver Freyermuth wrote:
>> I finally managed to test this in my testing setup - it works perfectly fine!
> 
> Awesome :D
> 
>> Could you let me know once it's integrated upstream?
> 
> I *am* the upstream for dhcpcd :)
> It will be in the next dhcpcd release for sure.

Oh! I noted the manpages were authored by you, but I did not investigate you're much more than the manpage author - nice. 
Then, even more thanks for noticing my issue on the dnsmasq-discuss list here and taking care of it at the more correct place :-). 

> 
>> I plan to open issues for dhclient, systemd-networkd etc. then and could reference that RFC6355 is already handled fine
>> in a very portable way on a wide range of OS by dhcpcd.
>>
>> In a later step, I'll then ping the debian-installer and kickstart developers, since they should also adopt this (I think they use dhclient, but I may be wrong).
>>
>> It's nice to see that dhcpcd is first on this :-).
> 
> Generally, dhcpcd is the first to support new stuff.

I know. Sadly, the most widespread distros (Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS) have adoped dhclient (via NetworkManager) or systemd-networkd by default,
even though I'm not convinced this is a good move, but I won't enter philosophical discussions with them (with Gentoo, I can easily choose myself ;-) ). 

> Thanks for testing and taking it to other upstreams.

Thanks to you for being really quick in adding well-tested portable support for this! 

Cheers,
	Oliver



> 
> Roy




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