Mike Hyde wrote:
> I did some digging in the docs from OI past and found this:
> 
> "DHCPv6 is invoked by Router Advertisements (RAs). Depending on how the 
> router is configured, the system automatically invokes DHCPv6 on the 
> interface on which the Router Advertisement message was received and uses 
> DHCP to get an address and other parameters, or the system requests only data 
> other than an address (for example, DNS servers) with DHCPv6.
> The in.ndpd daemon receives the Router Advertisement message. It does this 
> automatically on all interfaces plumbed for IPv6 on the system. When in.ndpd 
> sees an RA that specifies that DHCPv6 should run, it invokes it."
> 
> So it sounds like it could be expecting something from the router sending out 
> the RA and is not getting it.  May not be an eventhook fix, but a router.  I 
> will see what I can find.

No.  If you're getting output from dhcpinfo, then DHCP is running.  As I
noted before "ifconfig -a" will also show you that DHCP is running.

The problem appears to be the local plumbing, not the router.

-- 
James Carlson         42.703N 71.076W         <carls...@workingcode.com>

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