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

Andrew Shadura <[email protected]> Mon, 8 Jul 2013 10:56:06 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.ipv6
Message-ID	<20130708105606.5c059cfe@ileemo>

Hello,

On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 10:14:54 +0200
Daniel Pocock <[email protected]> wrote:

> For IPv4, if somebody doesn't want NM, they can just put

> iface eth0 inet dhcp

> in their interfaces file and it works for just about any network.
> Since wheezy, the line "send host-name = gethostname();" was added to
> dhclient.conf, Debian machines have also been automatically added to
> dynamic DNS wherever the DHCP server supports it[1]

> My feeling is that IPv6 doesn't currently give this type of
> "one-liner" plug and play experience and given that people are
> accustomed to this convenience, they will feel deterred by IPv6 if it
> takes any of these things away from them.

It's just people usually don't use DHCP with IPv6 because there's SLAAC
which doesn't require any setup at all (maximum you'd want is to
install rdnssd).

-- 
WBR, Andrew

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