dhcpcd-discuss

dhcpcd-5.6.0 has been released with the following changes

Improve IPv6 RA support by allowing dhcpcd to manage the address and 
routes
instead of the kernel. dhcpcd will only do this if RA is disabled in 
the kernel
or dhcpcd has been instructed to do this via dhcpcd.conf(5) ipv6ra_own 
and
ipv6ra_own_default directives.

Send and process IPv6 Neighbor Solicitions and Adverts to prove router
reachability. If a router cannot be reached in this way then it is 
expired.

When debugging, all ND messages are displayed which will create a lot 
of log
spam.

To ease packaging, ./configure now accepts LDFLAGS and --enable-static.
Because Linux pulls in librt for clock_gettime(3) it's over 400k larger 
than a
BSD static binary as clock_gettime(3) is in libc on BSD.
Comments on how to solve this are welcome. Adding a configure option to 
disable
librt and fall-back to gettimeofday(3) is a possibility but not 
desirable.

Because dhcpcd can now handle IPv6 addresses and routes, using similar 
logic
to the existing IPv4 code I'm marking this as an experimental release.
I've been using it now for some time so it does work for me, but 
probably
not for everyone's tastes.

Even if you don't plan to use dhcpcd to manage IPv6 RA addresses and 
routes,
I still ask you to test it as dhcpcd *will* be using that codepath when 
it
grows DHCPv6 support

Thanks

Roy