Re: DHCPv6 support in dhcpcd?

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <201102181837.p1IIbt6w007118%egsner.cirr.com@localhost>,
Eric Schnoebelen <eric%cirr.com@localhost> wrote:
>
>Is there any ongoing work on adding DHCPv6 support to dhcpcd in
>NetBSD?
>
>Why?  I'd like to be able to have the DHCP servers on IPv6
>handle DNS reverse address map updates, DNS forward address
>creations, and allowing the client to gather useful information
>like name servers, time servers, etc..
>
>I believe the DHCPv6 supports handling all that, and the ISC
>dhcpd (and dhclient) in pkgsrc support those features on IPv6.
>
>(yes, I can build everything out of pkgsrc, and that is where
>the DHCP servers come from, but having something built into
>dhcpcd would be nice, since that's why it's in base..)

I tried to import the newest isc dhcp that has v6 support but
the isc shared libraries are a mess [ifdefs] and cannot be shared
with bind so I gave up for now.

christos