Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Switching from ISC dhcpd and IPv6 DNS

2011-08-11 Thread Bill C Riemers
Grab the tomatoUSB compatible router of your choice. Install firmware. Done. On 08/11/2011 02:27 PM, Ed W wrote: On 21/04/2011 19:56, Simon Kelley wrote: This is only vaguely on topic, and certainly doesn't provide an immediate solution for the original query, but it's worth announcing tha

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Switching from ISC dhcpd and IPv6 DNS

2011-08-11 Thread Ed W
On 21/04/2011 19:56, Simon Kelley wrote: > > This is only vaguely on topic, and certainly doesn't provide an > immediate solution for the original query, but it's worth announcing > that I'm starting to think seriously about adding DHCPv6 support to > dnsmasq. My current thoughts are that I'll

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Switching from ISC dhcpd and IPv6 DNS

2011-04-25 Thread Jima
On 2011-04-21 13:56, Simon Kelley wrote: This is only vaguely on topic, and certainly doesn't provide an immediate solution for the original query, but it's worth announcing that I'm starting to think seriously about adding DHCPv6 support to dnsmasq. My current thoughts are that I'll also add b

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Switching from ISC dhcpd and IPv6 DNS

2011-04-21 Thread Jan Seiffert
2011/4/21 Simon Kelley : > > This is only vaguely on topic, and certainly doesn't provide an > immediate solution for the original query, but it's worth announcing > that I'm starting to think seriously about adding DHCPv6 support to > dnsmasq.  My current thoughts are that I'll also add basic > ro

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Switching from ISC dhcpd and IPv6 DNS

2011-04-21 Thread Bill C Riemers
On 04/21/2011 04:13 PM, /dev/rob0 wrote: I don't understand. A MAC address is only relevant in a physical network segment. You simply *must* give a MAC address to hosts on your segment in order to have networking. But beyond that segment, there's no meaning to a MAC. Sure, someone can look it up

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Switching from ISC dhcpd and IPv6 DNS

2011-04-21 Thread Freddie Witherden
On 21/04/11 21:13, /dev/rob0 wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 08:06:50PM +0100, Freddie Witherden wrote: >> On 21/04/11 19:49, Bill C Riemers wrote: >>> Strange why would you want use_tempaddr=1? If you use_tempaddr=0, >>> you addresses will be assigned based on the radvd network prefix >>> and

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Switching from ISC dhcpd and IPv6 DNS

2011-04-21 Thread /dev/rob0
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 08:06:50PM +0100, Freddie Witherden wrote: > On 21/04/11 19:49, Bill C Riemers wrote: >> Strange why would you want use_tempaddr=1? If you use_tempaddr=0, >> you addresses will be assigned based on the radvd network prefix >> and the mac address of the device. You IPv6 a

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Switching from ISC dhcpd and IPv6 DNS

2011-04-21 Thread Bill C Riemers
On 04/21/2011 03:06 PM, Freddie Witherden wrote: On 21/04/11 19:49, Bill C Riemers wrote: Strange why would you want use_tempaddr=1? If you use_tempaddr=0, you addresses will be assigned based on the radvd network prefix and the mac address of the device. You IPv6 addresses will be the same

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Switching from ISC dhcpd and IPv6 DNS

2011-04-21 Thread Freddie Witherden
On 21/04/11 19:49, Bill C Riemers wrote: > Strange why would you want use_tempaddr=1? If you use_tempaddr=0, you addresses will be assigned based on the radvd network prefix and the mac address of the device. You IPv6 addresses will be the same everytime, unless your network prefix changes, or

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Switching from ISC dhcpd and IPv6 DNS

2011-04-21 Thread Simon Kelley
This is only vaguely on topic, and certainly doesn't provide an immediate solution for the original query, but it's worth announcing that I'm starting to think seriously about adding DHCPv6 support to dnsmasq. My current thoughts are that I'll also add basic router-advertisement support too,

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Switching from ISC dhcpd and IPv6 DNS

2011-04-21 Thread Bill C Riemers
On 04/21/2011 11:44 AM, Freddie Witherden wrote: Hello, For several years now I have been using dnsmasq + /etc/hosts to provide DNS for my home network. DHCP has been provided by the ISC dhcpd server on the same system. Given the flux of systems on the network only the GNU/Linux boxes have en

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] Switching from ISC dhcpd and IPv6 DNS

2011-04-21 Thread Jan Seiffert
2011/4/21 Freddie Witherden : > Hello, > > For several years now I have been using dnsmasq + /etc/hosts to provide > DNS for my home network.   DHCP has been provided by the ISC dhcpd > server on the same system.  Given the flux of systems on the network > only the GNU/Linux boxes have entries in /

[Dnsmasq-discuss] Switching from ISC dhcpd and IPv6 DNS

2011-04-21 Thread Freddie Witherden
Hello, For several years now I have been using dnsmasq + /etc/hosts to provide DNS for my home network. DHCP has been provided by the ISC dhcpd server on the same system. Given the flux of systems on the network only the GNU/Linux boxes have entries in /etc/hosts with dhcpd doing a reasonable j