Re: Bug#632915: ifupdown: DHCPv6 support

[Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>]

Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> writes:

> I was initially going to support wide-dhcpv6-client as well as
> isc-dhcp-client, but it was rather harder to integrate into ifupdown,
> since doing stateful DHCPv6 there requires writing out custom
> configuration files rather than just passing the right command line
> options.  isc-dhcp-client is Priority: important, so this ought to be
> good enough for most people.

Nope, sorry.  isc-dhcp-client  has no support for ppp interfaces, which
makes it useless for lots of people.  See e.g. xs4all's IPv6 access
service.


Bjørn