IPv6 and DHCP

[Karl Auer]

On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 15:25 +0200, xerces8 wrote:
> > How, on Ubuntu, does one specify that an interface should obtain an IPv6
> > address via DHCP?
> You can run the radvd (Router Advertisement Demon) on ther server and the
> auto stuff on the client will pick it up.

I specifically do not want the stateless autoconfiguration stuff; I want
DHCP.

> The address assigne will be based on the MAC address of the client NIC.
> (that is : always the same, unless you swap the NIC)

Yes - but I want to be able to allocate specific addresses, I don't
necessarily want my MAC addresses exposed to the Internet, and I want
centralised DDNS for the clients. All of which means DHCP.

Thanks anyway, K.

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