dhcpcd-discuss

Re: dhcpcd and static IPv6 addresses

Roy Marples

Sun Feb 14 08:18:17 2016

On Friday 05 February 2016 21:06:46 Roy Marples wrote:
> So over the years, several people have asked for dhcpcd to support
> static IPv6 addresses - I even have an open ticket for it. Now, IPv6 is
> designed around many addresses, whereas IPv4 is designed around a
> singular address. So some questions :)
> 
>   *  Is there a need to configure >1 static IPv6 address?
>   *  Should a static IPv6 address disable IPv6RS and DHCPv6?
>   *  Should it have it's own reason for dhcpcd-run-hooks(8)?

This has now been implemented.
You can configure 1 static address, it will not disables IPv6RS or DHCPv6 and 
it will run it's own hook on completion.

static ip6_address=fd51:42f8:caae:d92e::ff/64

Roy

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dhcpcd and static IPv6 addressesRoy Marples
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