On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 09:00:07PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > - When the router announcements have "AdvOtherConfigFlag" set to > "On", i.e. they tell the client to do a DHCPv6 request for > additional (non-address) information, and the DHCPv6 server > does not respond, the client seems to infinitely try to get > a DHCPv6 reply. After about 10 minutes I have killed the > dhcp6c process, but that results in the whole network > configuration process starting from the beginning. > I have attached the corresponding syslog part. > > Having router announcements with AdvOtherConfigFlag On and > a non-responding DHCPv6 server should of course not happen > in a correctly functioning network, but if possible it would > be nice if the client could timeout within a relatively > short time when there is no reply, as it does for DHCPv4. > > All information which is strictly required for the installation > (prefix, gateway and DNS) has already been gathered from > the RA at this point and the installation could proceed > without the additional DHCPv6 info (domain name, NTP servers, > timezone info, etc.).
The timeout issue should be fixed with the current daily. It would probably be good if you could retest that. I.e. there was a general programming error that might not only have affected this specific case. Kind regards Philipp Kern
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