Re: DHCPv6-PD requests, and virtual machines

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[email protected]> Sat, 16 Oct 2021 15:13:21 -0300

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.ipv6
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Wed, 01 Sep 2021, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> ifupdown has this extremely annoying misfeature that it forces a release
> on shutdown, both for DHCP and DHCPv6.  The automatic release on every

This is *highly* desired *on IPv4*, wherever address pools are scarce.

The correct thing would likely be: do not do it on IPv6, but still do it
on IPv4.