dhcpcd-discuss

> On Jan 29, 2016, at 1:53 AM, Roy Marples <roy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> I need to think about this a bit more to be sure, but I don’t think `service
>> slaac` is related to dhcpcd at all. It’s appropriate at that spot in the
>> config, because it’s related to PD, but it’s actually a config telling the
>> DHCP //server// to enable SLAAC on those interfaces.
> 
> DHCP server's don't care about SLAAC.
> RA servers don't either.
> SLAAC is strictly a client only thing.

Yes, SLAAC is a client thing. However, my understanding is that, when the client needs an IPv6, it sends a solicitation request to the router, which, in the SLAAC case, responds “The current prefix is 2620:0:2d0:201::1/64, use SLAAC to figure it out yourself.”  Am I wrong?

New question, about versions: I already noticed on here that twice recently you’ve asked someone using DHCPv6 to confirm that they’re on version 6.10.1. With that knowledge, and thinking there might be an important reason for that, I looked at the versions currently available for standard Debian (the OS on which VyOS runs):

- Squeeze has dhcpcd version 3.2.3-5
- Wheezy has dhcpcd5 version 5.5.6-1 and dhcpcd 3.2.3-11
- Jessie has dhcpcd5 version 6.0.5-2
- Stretch has dhcpcd5 version 6.9.3-1

It always disappoints me to see how far behind some distros are. Anyway, so none of them have 6.10.1. Jessie is the current stable, but seems to still be 2.5 years behind, and Stretch is Debian-next, and seems only to be a few months behind. VyOS is, unfortunately, still on //Squeeze//, but we’re actively working on getting it switched to Jessie.

Still it doesn’t sound like Jessie is new enough, and even Stretch might not be. Is there a series of important bugs than have been fixed between versions 6.0.5 and 6.10.1? What’s the minimum version we need to use to not run into problems with DHCPv6? (I never have understand what the -n at the end of Debian package version names is, but I’m assuming it’s unimportant here, and that 6.0.5-2 is just 6.0.5?) Do you know of a trustworthy package repo that has dhcpcd version 6.10.1 available for Jessie, or are we going to have to package it ourselves?

Thanks,

Nick