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General IPv6 Topics => IPv6 on Routing Platforms => Topic started by: cholzhauer on March 11, 2010, 09:53:35 AM

Title: DHCPv6
Post by: cholzhauer on March 11, 2010, 09:53:35 AM
I came across this link a little while ago and wanted to post it for others to see

https://fedorahosted.org/dhcpv6/

It seems that DHCPv6 is now obsolete because IPv6 support is built into the new version of DHCP
Title: Re: DHCPv6
Post by: chiel on March 11, 2010, 10:36:28 AM
Well, DHCPv6 is supported in the newer DHCP version from ISC.
As quoted from the website:

QuoteNo new development will be happening on this project. dhcpv6 has been obsoleted by ISC dhcp version 4.1.0 and later.
Title: Re: DHCPv6
Post by: kriteknetworks on March 11, 2010, 06:38:02 PM
Doesn't this still require running two daemons, one for v4 and one for v6?
Title: Re: DHCPv6
Post by: cholzhauer on March 12, 2010, 04:55:48 AM
I don't know; there's not a whole lot of information in the article.

I would assume so though.
Title: Re: DHCPv6
Post by: mikea on March 13, 2010, 12:30:32 PM
I just compiled the stable version of ISC dhcp 4.1.1. It looks like the dhcpd daemon handles both v4 and v6 dhcp but needs to be given a command line switch: [-4|-6] for which version to use. Appears to default to v4 and didn't like the dhcpv6 config until the -6 option was given. So it looks like you would have to run separate instances of the dhcpd daemon for v4 and v6.
Title: Re: DHCPv6
Post by: jimb on March 13, 2010, 01:51:34 PM
I presume you'd have to point it to separate config files too for each version.

I should compile that up and play a bit.  I've been wanting to toy with prefix delegation for a while now.
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