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

On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 03:59:41PM -0700, Kenyon Ralph wrote:
> 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.

As should Debian Wheezy with network-manager. (It also does RDNSS, but that can
be tricky to send with non-OSS gear.)

Kind regards
Philipp Kern