Re: IPv6 status on Debian for workstations / DHCP networks?

Hello,

On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 20:43:27 +0200
Daniel Pocock <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Not true.

> Let me put it another way, I can see various permutations:

> a) If the user has nothing in interfaces, then the IPv6 will just do
> SLAAC by itself anyway.  If it receives an RA with M=1 it won't have
> any dhclient process running and it won't start one and so it has no
> address and no DNS.

> b) if the user has
> iface eth0 inet6 auto
> then they will experience the same as (a) above

> c) if the user has
> iface eth0 inet6 dhcp
> then it will use dhclient, it will work on networks where M=1 in the
> RA and (will or won't ????) work when plugged into a network that uses
> SLAAC?

You can use guessnet with a custom test script to select one of the
configuration you need based on the rdisc6/ndisc6 output. Probably, we
can have it in guessnet as a built-in test.

-- 
WBR, Andrew

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