Hello, On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 20:43:27 +0200 Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.com.au> wrote: > > Not true. > Let me put it another way, I can see various permutations: > a) If the user has nothing in interfaces, then the IPv6 will just do > SLAAC by itself anyway. If it receives an RA with M=1 it won't have > any dhclient process running and it won't start one and so it has no > address and no DNS. > b) if the user has > iface eth0 inet6 auto > then they will experience the same as (a) above > c) if the user has > iface eth0 inet6 dhcp > then it will use dhclient, it will work on networks where M=1 in the > RA and (will or won't ????) work when plugged into a network that uses > SLAAC? You can use guessnet with a custom test script to select one of the configuration you need based on the rdisc6/ndisc6 output. Probably, we can have it in guessnet as a built-in test. -- WBR, Andrew
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