From owner-freebsd-net@freebsd.org Mon Oct 7 18:45:23 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7844136881 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2019 18:45:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from vps1.elischer.org (vps1.elischer.org [204.109.63.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "vps1.elischer.org", Issuer "CA Cert Signing Authority" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 46n8Yb4TYbz4Pyr; Mon, 7 Oct 2019 18:45:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from Julian-MBP3.local (c-73-225-95-104.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [73.225.95.104]) (authenticated bits=0) by vps1.elischer.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id x97IjL8Z054230 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 7 Oct 2019 11:45:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Subject: Re: DHCPv6 client in base To: Ben Woods , Hiroki Sato Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, driesm.michiels@gmail.com, "roy@marples.name" References: <001e01d50b49$176104d0$46230e70$@gmail.com> <20190516.032012.517661495892269813.hrs@allbsd.org> From: Julian Elischer Message-ID: Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2019 11:45:15 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 46n8Yb4TYbz4Pyr X-Spamd-Bar: - Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-1.68 / 15.00]; local_wl_from(0.00)[freebsd.org]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.68)[-0.684,0]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; TAGGED_RCPT(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:36236, ipnet:204.109.60.0/22, country:US] X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2019 18:45:23 -0000 On 10/6/19 5:53 PM, Ben Woods wrote: > On Thu, 16 May 2019 at 2:25 am, Hiroki Sato wrote: > >> 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