Re: Bug#632915: ifupdown: DHCPv6 support

[Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>]

Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> writes:
> Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> writes:
>
>> I was initially going to support wide-dhcpv6-client as well as
>> isc-dhcp-client, but it was rather harder to integrate into ifupdown,
>> since doing stateful DHCPv6 there requires writing out custom
>> configuration files rather than just passing the right command line
>> options.  isc-dhcp-client is Priority: important, so this ought to be
>> good enough for most people.
>
> Nope, sorry.  isc-dhcp-client  has no support for ppp interfaces, which
> makes it useless for lots of people.  See e.g. xs4all's IPv6 access
> service.

And to provide a solution instead: Yes, wide-dhcpv6-client will require
a config file.  But the version packaged in Debian does not need require
a *custom written* one. It has support for "profiles", and you can get
away with a static config like this (note: no interface specific info
here):

profile default
{
  send ia-na 0;
};


and a command line like this:

dhcp6c -P default $IFACE


Bjørn