removal of dhcpv6 package from Fedora

[David Cantrell]

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On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, J. Randall Owens wrote:

> On 09/18/2009 05:25 PM, David Cantrell wrote:
>> If you do not care about IPv6, feel free to stop reading now.
>>
>> I would like to remove the dhcpv6 package from Fedora as the current dhcp
>> package is now providing DHCPv6 protocol support for both the client,
>> server,
>> and relay.  ISC has finally surpassed what the dhcpv6 package was providing
>> and, frankly, I have no desire to continue working on the dhcpv6 at this
>> point.
>>
>> Does anyone care?  If not, I will be marking it as a dead.package per our
>> package removal procedure.  The dhclient package will grow the necessary
>> Provides/Obsoletes for the former dhcpv6-client package and the dhcp
>> package
>> will grow the necessary Provides/Obsoletes for the former dhcpv6 package.
>
> On a related note, I'd been meaning to inquire about and/or suggest ways to get
> ISC's dhcpd working for both IPv4 and IPv6 simultaneously.  Do you have one way
> or another of doing this yet?  That was the only thing that had me using dhcp6s
> for a short time.

Unfortunately, no.  Like dhclient, dhcpd can only operate as a DHCP (protocol)
or DHCPv6 (protocol) server.  It can't operate as both at the same time.  To
use both with dhcpd, just run two instances.  This is the recommendation from
ISC at the moment.  The dhcpd architecture needs a lot of changes before both
protocols can be supported by a single daemon.

- -- 
David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com>
Red Hat / Honolulu, HI

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