Wireless problems. UPDATE

Mark Haney mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Wed Jun 25 14:01:38 UTC 2008


Tim wrote:
> Mark Haney:
>> My wireless router doesn't but my primary router does.  I don't really 
>> need an IPv6 DHCP server, so why do you ask?
> 
> You wrote, "For some reason dhcp6c didn't get me an IP address from the
> AP."  That sounded like you didn't know why.
> 
> If the device doesn't support IPv6, it's not going to work through it.
> If some device in your network does support it (e.g. a router), but your
> DHCP server doesn't, then IPv6 can be used on the network, but you'd
> need something else to assign it an address.
> 

Okay, maybe I"m the idiot here.  dhcp6c is the IPv6 dhcp client right? 
Okay, that being the case, what app does Fedora use get an IP from a 
dhcp server?  On my laptop it's dhcpcd, but Fedora doesn't have that nor 
anything close to that OTHER than dhcp6c which is why I mentioned it.  I 
thought that was just a regular dhcp client that (possibly) handled ipv6 
as well (hence the 6 in the name).

Obviously I was wrong and should RTFM more often.

What daemon does Fedora use for dhcp?


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Mark Haney
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