Re: LAN Support / State of the tools?

On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 12:40:50PM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> Florian Lohoff <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > we have v6 in the LAN running for years and everything is fine. The thing missing is
> > the possibility to hand out ipv6 Nameservers e.g. DHCPv6. Currently we only do 
> > SLAAC. 
> 
> Are all the clients Linux?  If so, then you can get away with using the
> RDNSS option in radvd.conf and rdnssd on the clients.  Don't know if
> other OSes support RFC5006 yet.  It's only 5 years old, so I guess we
> cannot expect that.
> 
> I'd recommend using the RDNSS option in any case, to support the clients
> which can use it.

:) Most of the interesting ones are Linux, some MacOSX some newer Windows.

> > I tried using wide-dhcpv6-server and failed to get it to work on multiple interfaces on
> > the same machine which does not seem to work. ( e.g. vlans - eth0.5, eth0.10, eth0.10 etc).
> >
> > It fails to start with:
> >
> > Jun  8 09:40:06 dhcp-server dhcp6s[26452]: dhcp6_ctl_init: bind(control sock): Address already in use
> > Jun  8 09:40:06 dhcp-server dhcp6s[26452]: server6_init: failed to initialize control channel
> 
> I tried to reproduce this, but could not:
> 
> frtest5:~# grep INT /etc/default/wide-dhcpv6-server 
> INTERFACES="eth0 eth2 eth3"
> 
> frtest5:~# /etc/init.d/wide-dhcpv6-server start
> [ ok ] Starting WIDE DHCPv6 server on eth0: dhcp6s.
> [ ok ] Starting WIDE DHCPv6 server on eth2: dhcp6s.
> [ ok ] Starting WIDE DHCPv6 server on eth3: dhcp6s.

Not the debian version is it? At least thats not the debian squeeze messages
from the init script.

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                                 [email protected]

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