IPv6 and DHCP

[Michael R. Head]

On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 15:00 +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
> Hi there.
> 
> How, on Ubuntu, does one specify that an interface should obtain an IPv6
> address via DHCP?

Have you tried the wide-dhcpv6-client package?
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=wide-dhcpv6-client

I haven't used it myself, but I would guess that would be a good
starting point.

> My interfaces work just fine with stateless autoconfiguration, but I
> want to allocate specific addresses to them. /etc/network/interfaces
> doesn't have (according to the manual) a DHCPv6 mode - just static,
> manual and v4tunnel.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Regards, K.
> 
> PS: This is Feisty... but I'm interested in how to do it on *any*
> version of Ubuntu.
> 
-- 
Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~mike/
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