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On 09/18/2009 06:22 PM, David Cantrell wrote:
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, J. Randall Owens wrote:
> On 09/18/2009 05:25 PM, David Cantrell wrote:
>> If you do not care about IPv6, feel free to stop reading now.
>>
>> I would like to remove the dhcpv6 package from Fedora as the current
>> dhcp
>> package is now providing DHCPv6 protocol support for both the client,
>> server,
>> and relay. ISC has finally surpassed what the dhcpv6 package was
>> providing
>> and, frankly, I have no desire to continue working on the dhcpv6 at this
>> point.
>>
>> Does anyone care? If not, I will be marking it as a dead.package per
>> our
>> package removal procedure. The dhclient package will grow the necessary
>> Provides/Obsoletes for the former dhcpv6-client package and the dhcp
>> package
>> will grow the necessary Provides/Obsoletes for the former dhcpv6
>> package.
> On a related note, I'd been meaning to inquire about and/or suggest
> ways to get
> ISC's dhcpd working for both IPv4 and IPv6 simultaneously. Do you
> have one way
> or another of doing this yet? That was the only thing that had me
> using dhcp6s
> for a short time.
Unfortunately, no. Like dhclient, dhcpd can only operate as a DHCP
(protocol)
or DHCPv6 (protocol) server. It can't operate as both at the same
time. To
use both with dhcpd, just run two instances. This is the recommendation
from
ISC at the moment. The dhcpd architecture needs a lot of changes before
both
protocols can be supported by a single daemon.
Well, I'll offer up my solution, then, if you want to integrate it. Aside from
the obvious step of creating a separate /etc/dhcp/dhcpd6.conf (or similar dhcpd
+ 6 combination), /etc/rc.d/init.d/dhcpd6, and /etc/sysconfig/dhcpd6, I created
/usr/sbin/dhcpd6 as a symlink to dhcpd, so that the init.d functions can keep
straight which dhcpd is which. I put -6 in the arguments of the init.d script;
I know someone else put it in the sysconfig DHCPDARGS (or DHCPD6ARGS as I called
it). Either way seems to work pretty well, if you want to make it capable of
running both ways from an only-slightly modified install. Alternatively, you
could make a small subpackage for the IPv6 setup.
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