dhcpcd-discuss

Re: Dynamic IPv6 Prefix Delegation

Roy Marples

Sat Aug 01 08:40:31 2015

Hi Timo

On Monday 27 July 2015 14:33:17 Timo Rothenpieler wrote:
> > It might be worth while emailing Fritz! about this, I don't really want
> > to introduce an option to break RFC compliance just because of them.
> > 
> > Roy
> 
> It's been almost a year since i mailed AVM/Fritz support about this, and
> they said they will look into the issue.
> So far, several new Firmware-Versions have passed, nothing has changed.
> 
> I still have to patch out the authentication check to refresh my IPv6
> prefix every night.
> 
> I understand that adding something RFC breaking is not desirable, but i
> know several people who ran into the exact same issue with an AVM router
> and fixed it with the same hacky patch.
> Some official way to allow unauthenticated reconfigure, with appropriate
> warnings and maybe even a reference why it exists would be nice to have.
> 
> For reference, this is the patch I'm applying to get my setup working:
> https://gist.github.com/anonymous/643111ebcc6a71f662d5

I'm sorry to hear that you're not getting the support from your vendor you 
deserve.

I've made this change, which should help you.
http://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd/ci/377c3a751f687ec3?sbs=0

Please test and feedback!

Roy

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