Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2019 11:45:15 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> To: Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com>, Hiroki Sato <hrs@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, driesm.michiels@gmail.com, "roy@marples.name" <roy@marples.name> Subject: Re: DHCPv6 client in base Message-ID: <f2ffbe69-31e9-b5ab-2a1d-209fc8261288@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAOc73CCLPmB7m3yaDE7p4izJ8apaO5jcyRPyLkSJtopqsHxtSQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <001e01d50b49$176104d0$46230e70$@gmail.com> <20190516.032012.517661495892269813.hrs@allbsd.org> <CAOc73CCLPmB7m3yaDE7p4izJ8apaO5jcyRPyLkSJtopqsHxtSQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10/6/19 5:53 PM, Ben Woods wrote: > On Thu, 16 May 2019 at 2:25 am, Hiroki Sato <hrs@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> <driesm.michiels@gmail.com> wrote >> in <001e01d50b49$176104d0$46230e70$@gmail.com>: >> >> dr> Has anyone ever thought or considered integrating an IPv6 DHCP client >> in >> dr> base? >> >> I have a plan to import wide-dhcp6 into the base system because it is >> simple enough. >> >> dr> net/dhcp6 isn't really maintained anymore from the KAME days it works >> for >> dr> basic functionality but fails when a more complex config is required. >> >> More specifics about the complex configuration? >> >> -- Hiroki > > I would like to discuss whether dhcpcd is a better option to import into > FreeBSD base, rather than wide-dhcp6. > > dhcpcd has the following benefits that I can see: > - Actively maintained [1] (wide-dhcp6 seems to be stale for 11 years?) > - Used in NetBSD and DragonflyBSD (code sharing amongst the BSDs will > facilitate collective progress and lesson sharing). Roy, the upstream > maintainer, has committer on both NetBSD and DragonFlyBSD. > - more feature rich [2] > > [1] https://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd/history > [2] https://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd/features > > hrs - what are your thoughts? I'm not HRS, but as it uses netlink, how does NetBSD use it? (i.e. how do we simulate that?) > > Regards, > Ben
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