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Re: Bug#594672: ITP: dhcpcd5 -- a DHCP client



On 2010-08-28, Patrick Matthäi <pmatthaei@debian.org> wrote:
> Am 28.08.2010 12:11, schrieb Roy Marples:
>>>>    dhcpcd is a one stop IPv4 network management daemon which includes
>>> It only supports IPv6?
>> Only IPv4 at present.
>> IPv6 support, at least for RA is planned for the next major version,
>> possibly with support for the experimental RFC5006 (DNS in IPv6 RA).
> Whops, s/IPv6/IPv4/ in my message, please. :)
> IMHO it shouldn't uploaded to Debian, without missing IPv6 support.

DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 are sufficiently different protocol-wise to warrant two
different clients.  (The v6 people might not want to deal with the cruft
of DHCPv4 too...)

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern


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