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

On 2013-07-05T10:38:44-0400, Michael Richardson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Daniel Pocock <[email protected]> wrote:
>     >> dhcpd does not have to run on the router.  DHCPv6 servers are found by
>     >> multicast.  Unless you set M=1 in your RAs, your hosts will not use
>     >> DHCPv6 for address allocation, so it makes little sense to attempt to
>     >> tie DNS updates to DHCPv6 in my opinion.
> 
>     > I've configured radvd on the router for M=1 - so all hosts should be
>     > using DHCPv6 and therefore DDNS should be maintained
> 
> okay.... my observation is that client side dhcpv6 is unusual still at this
> point.  Certainly none of my phone/tablet devices will do that, and they all
> speak ipv6 RA just fine.

Windows 7, Mac OS X, and iOS devices, to name some examples that I've
seen, have done client-side DHCPv6 correctly by default for a while.

-- 
Kenyon Ralph

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