Hi Henri, Daniel Pocock wrote: > Upstream is Henri, on CC. His web site is > > http://dhcpy6d.ifw-dresden.de > > I've offered to help him get the package in shape but we would > potentially like help from another sponsor
I'm not a python specialist and hence can't give much advice on python-specific issues, but I'm currently looking at dhcpy6d and dhcpy6d's .deb package after playing around with ISC DHCPd (4.2.2, 4.2.4 and now 4.3.0) for DHCPv6 over a year or two (but getting more serious for a few weeks now). > Benefit to Debian: > - the ISC DHCPD package doesn't ship with IPv6 init script Yeah, but that's not a major issue. There's an open bug with attached patch. You can easily use the init script from that patch. Using that for one or two years now. > - the ISC DHCPD package doesn't support MAC-based IPv6 clients, that is > a major hassle for some people That's more an issue for me. > I've tried the package from the upstream web site, it has some easily > fixed lintian errors and warnings (e.g. a copy of a log file is included > in the package) What I noticed: * Missing man pages * Daemon needs to be activated at two places (/etc/default/dhcpy6d and "really_do_it = yes" in /etc/dhcpy6d.conf) despite one of them should be enough. * If there's a configuration error, I just get this output: [FAIL] Starting dhcpy6d DHCPv6 server dhcpy6d: failed! There's nothing in any log which points to the reason. Had to figure out from the init.d script how the daemon needs to be started to see some output. > Two small problems prevent the daemon starting on wheezy: > > python-dnspython needs to be added to the system (should be a dependency) There's also an alternative dependency (to python-mysql) missing on python-sqlite, especially since the shipped default config uses the SQLite backend (i.e. it should be the primary alternative). > It fails to find modules from /usr/share/pyshared - adding this code to > /usr/sbin/dhcpy6d fixes it: > > sys.path[0:0] = ['/usr/share/pyshared'] Sounds like something which should hurt if it would be added upstream instead of a debian-specific patch in the package. Some comments on the documentation: On https://dhcpy6d.ifw-dresden.de/documentation/config/addresses/ it would be nice to explicitly state if "range = 1000-2000" are hex or decimal numbers. I suspect hex, but then maybe the example should better be 1000-1FFF as 2000 usually already is part of the consecutive range. Giving out more than one addresses as described on https://dhcpy6d.ifw-dresden.de/documentation/config/client/ didn't work for me. The according configuration line in the client config file was: address = 2001:67c:10ec:3dd1::127 2001:67c:10ec:3dd1::303 2001:67c:10ec:3dd1::307 >From the log: 2014-03-13 21:54:35,846 dhcpy6d INFO REPLY | TransactionID: ad2847 | Options: [3, 7, 14, 23, 24, 4, 5] | Addresses: 2::::::: 0::::::: 0::::::: 1::::::: :::::::: 6::::::: 7::::::: c::::::: :::::::: 1::::::: 0::::::: e::::::: c::::::: :::::::: 3::::::: d::::::: d::::::: 1::::::: :::::::: :::::::: 1::::::: 2::::::: 7::::::: ::::::: 2::::::: 0::::::: 0::::::: 1::::::: :::::::: 6::::::: 7::::::: c::::::: :::::::: 1::::::: 0::::::: e::::::: c::::::: :::::::: 3::::::: d::::::: d::::::: 1::::::: :::::::: :::::::: 3::::::: 0::::::: 3::::::: ::::::: 2::::::: 0::::::: 0::::::: 1::::::: :::::::: 6::::::: 7::::::: c::::::: :::::::: 1::::::: 0::::::: e::::::: c::::::: :::::::: 3::::::: d::::::: d::::::: 1::::::: :::::::: :::::::: 3::::::: 0::::::: 7::::::: fdef:0000:0000:0000:0000:0023:547b:28b1 | Class: default | Hostname: nemo2 The client (ISC DHCP 4.3.0a1) always argued "message status code NoAddrsAvail." (Not sure if I missed something else necessary to make that working, i.e. I'm not sure where the fedf:… address comes from.) But the addresses in the log above look funny anyway, as if every single character would be counted as single IPv6 address. %-) Anyway, dhcpy6d currently works better than ISC DHCPd for me. Not only because I can use MAC addresses but also because if I change a statically assigned IP, the client IP changes quite soon while it only had an effect with the ISC DHCPd if I removed the knowledge about the previous IP from the client. So I can imagine to sponsor dhcpy6d in Debian at least for a while. Haven't looked much at the package yet, though. P.S.: I'll be at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage the upcoming weekend. We can meet their in case you're coming, too. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `- | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140313213028.ga2...@sym.noone.org
