Following up on a conversation I started today at BSDCan 2016/DevSummit.
I’d like to see support for DHCPv6 in the base system. I have made
modifications to network.subr and the rc.d init scripts to allow configuring a
network interface to use DHCPv6 in a manner very similar to that currently used
for DHCPv4. This works assuming that you have a DHCPv6 client. For the purposes
of my development I used the ISC client from ports.
These changes were based on 10.0-RELEASE and I am in the process of adapting
these changes to 11 so they can be pushed upstream. However, they will be
unusable (albeit harmless) in the base system without a client.
* Is there any barrier to updating the dhclient in base to the current ISC
dhclient for both DHCPv4 & DHCPv6?
* Is there any barrier to replacing the current dhclient-script with that that
accompanies the ISC dhclient?
The two scripts are quite different and my DHCPv6 changes currently are
based on the ISC dhclient-script.
As I’ve already done a fair amount of this work, I’d be happy to work on
getting it in shape for pushing to HEAD. I had several people today at the
devsummit indicate that they thought that would be a good idea, but I thought
it would be a good idea to ask ahead of time if there were any known stumbling
blocks to doing that.
Thanks.
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David A. Bright
Storage Development Principal Engineer
Dell | Compellent
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