On Thu, 16 May 2019 at 2:25 am, Hiroki Sato <h...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> <driesm.michi...@gmail.com> wrote > in <001e01d50b49$176104d0$46230e70$@gmail.com>: > > dr> Has anyone ever thought or considered integrating an IPv6 DHCP client > in > dr> base? > > I have a plan to import wide-dhcp6 into the base system because it is > simple enough. > > dr> net/dhcp6 isn't really maintained anymore from the KAME days it works > for > dr> basic functionality but fails when a more complex config is required. > > More specifics about the complex configuration? > > -- Hiroki I would like to discuss whether dhcpcd is a better option to import into FreeBSD base, rather than wide-dhcp6. dhcpcd has the following benefits that I can see: - Actively maintained [1] (wide-dhcp6 seems to be stale for 11 years?) - Used in NetBSD and DragonflyBSD (code sharing amongst the BSDs will facilitate collective progress and lesson sharing). Roy, the upstream maintainer, has committer on both NetBSD and DragonFlyBSD. - more feature rich [2] [1] https://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd/history [2] https://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd/features hrs - what are your thoughts? Regards, Ben -- -- From: Benjamin Woods woods...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
