Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

["Leigh Porter" <leigh.porter () ukbroadband com>]

Does anybody have anything neat to keep logs of what host gets what ipv6 address in an SLAAC environment?

This is often required for legislation compliance. DHCP does this well.

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Leigh Porter

On 27 Feb 2011, at 14:04, "Chuck Anderson" <cra () WPI EDU> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 09:46:17PM -0800, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> > On 2/26/11 9:27 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> > > On a more serious note, I can on my Ubuntu machine just "apt-get install
> > > wide-dhcpv6-client" and I get dhcpv6, it'll properly put stuff in
> > > resolv.conf for dns-over-ipv6 transport, even though the connection
> > > manager knows nothing about it, at least dual stack works properly.
> > >
> > > Can one do the equivalent easy addition to OSX?
> >
> > You can, the actual integration issue is that network mangler (on
> > ubuntu/fedora etal) and the osX airport connection manager will give up
> > on a subnet on which they can't obtain an ipv4 address in prefernce to
> > one where they can... this can also be worked around but it makes
> > v6-only operation (Assuming that were desired, or even a good idea at
> > this point) something that the majority of the users wouldn't be able to
> > achive without the default behavior changing.
>
> NetworkManager on Fedora fully supports IPv6 now, including DHCPv6.  
> You can easily configure it to require an IPv4 address or an IPv6 
> address or both to consider the connection successfull.