IPv6 and DHCP

[Karl Auer]

On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 01:17 -0400, Michael R. Head wrote:
> > 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've installed the dibbler server; there's a dibbler client for Linux.
Maybe I'm not understanding something - there are several DHCPv4 clients
for Linux too, and the way you tell Linux to run them is to put a mode
"dhcp" in the interfaces file. There doesn't seem to be any way to do
the same thing for IPv6.

What I'm aiming for is a mixed network, with some interfaces getting
DHCP addresses and some getting statelessly autoconfigured addresses.

Seems to me if Linux is bringing IPv6 interfaces up autoconfigured by
default, that means I have to run the client "manually". The interfaces
that I want to give a specific address to will end up with two addresses
(the autoconfigured one and the DHCPv6-allocated one).

Regards, K.

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