DHCPv6 Support in FreeBSD Base

2016-06-09 Thread David Bright
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 us

Re: DHCPv6 Support in FreeBSD Base

2016-06-09 Thread David Bright
On Jun 9, 2016, at 18:08, Hiroki Sato wrote: > > I am concerned that by > replacing it completely we might be going to lose accumulated > improvements in our code though I do not have a complete list of them > nor closely look into the current ISC's code. If no one investigated > it, it need to

Re: DHCPv6 Support in FreeBSD Base

2016-06-10 Thread David Bright
On Jun 10, 2016, at 13:06, Mel Pilgrim mailto:list_free...@bluerosetech.com>> wrote: Could the WIDE client be used instead? Unlike the ISC client, it will configure downstream interfaces from PD prefixes without needing an external script. It also completely avoids the problem of trying to upda