On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 12:38:37PM +0200, Petr Menšík wrote: > On 10/21/22 12:25, Petr Menšík wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am attaching a change, which has been part of RHEL/CentOS Stream 9 for > > some while [1]. It fixes the problem with DHCPv6 only requests, which on > > some situations fail to provide an address. This change is older than > > related change, which attempted to solve similar issue on IPv4 too. It > > works by offering a different (free) IPv6 address to client, than he > > originally asked for. It is a simple change, but tested clients worked > > with it. Accompanied by related change to add client-arch tag support > > also for DHCPv6 [2]. It were created to solve rh bug #2002871 [3], of > > which most of communication is unfortunately RH internal only. Parent > > bug [4] has a bit more background visible to public. But no regressions > > were reported after this change and it has improved a situation in > > openstack. I haven't found my attempt to offer it here, but maybe I just > > failed my search. If it were refused already, kindly point me to correct > > thread. It improves iPXE booting of multiple machines on the same host > > concurrently. > > > > Cheers, > > Petr > > > > 1. > > https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/dnsmasq/-/blob/c9s/dnsmasq-2.86-alternative-lease.patch > > 2. > > https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/dnsmasq/-/blob/c9s/dnsmasq-2.86-dhcpv6-client-arch.patch > > 3. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2002871 > > 4. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1998448 > > > > Ah, found reference to the original thread: > > https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2021q3/015640.html > > It has subject: [PATCH] DHCPv6 - network booting 'address in use' > > It was neither refused or merged, so I like it to be reviewed. >
FWIW the patches from 2022-10-21 retransmit applied cleanly. Groeten Geert Stappers More sysadmin than C-programmer -- Silence is hard to parse _______________________________________________ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss
