[138017] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (TR Shaw)
Sun Feb 27 07:39:24 2011
From: TR Shaw <tshaw@oitc.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1102270753010.11974@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 07:39:18 -0500
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>, I2 IPv6 working group <wg-ipv6@internet2.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 27, 2011, at 1:56 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Feb 2011, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
>=20
>> On 2/26/11 9:27 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>>> On Sat, 26 Feb 2011, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
>>>=20
>>>> On 2/26/11 9:05 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
>>>>>> With copies out to developers we now have confirmation that Apple
>>>>>> still hasn't included DHCPv6 in the next release of OS X.
>>>>>=20
>>>>> what is it about ipv6 which attracts religious nuts?
>>>>=20
>>>> you sure it's not macos (says joel from a v6 enabled mac).
>>>=20
>>> 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.
>>>=20
>>> Can one do the equivalent easy addition to OSX?
>>=20
>> 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.
>=20
> I'm not that interested in v6 only, I'm after requiring DHCPv6 and =
disallowing SLAAC, which clients can use IPv6 then?
>=20
> List afaik:
>=20
> Can:
> Windows Vista/Win7 (default)
> Linux (with non-default software)
> *BSD (with non-default software)
>=20
> Probably:
>=20
> OSX (with non-default software)
>=20
> Can't:
>=20
> Windows XP
>=20
> Don't know:
>=20
> Symbian
> Android
> Apple iOS
>=20
Mikael,
try:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wide-dhcpv6/
http://wouter.horre.be/doc/stateless-dhcpv6-on-mac-os-x
or=20
http://klub.com.pl/dhcpv6/
There are others out there. I prefer wide for now. Works on 10.6. =
Haven't tried it on 10.5.
Tom
