dhcpcd-discuss

Hi

On 24/09/2018 19:47, lists+dhcpcd@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 07:14:41PM +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
> > But it come to nothing as no-one said if my idea was good or bad. One
> > commentor offered to at least do a small related patch, but that didn't
> > materialise, thus it has stalled as I personally have little interest in the
> > feature.
>
> Hi Roy,
>
> I'm that commenter :)
>
> I still want to take a stab at minimum pledge()'ing the process.
> Ideally with some privsep since it's a network daemon, but this is
> probably beyond my capability at the moment.
>
> I've been meaning to reply, but the holdup is that I've recently moved
> and switched ISPs.  Charter (I'm on the old Bresnan portion) does not
> supply me with a dynamic ipv6 address - the best I'm capable of using at
> the moment is an undocumented 6rd gateway, which is not of much use.  I
> hope this is resolved soon, because I would really like to contribute
> more to security aspects of dhcpcd.

Nothing stops you from setting up a local DHCPv6 server.
My ISP does not offer any IPv6 either, but I do use the unique address 
range which is avaible via DHCPv6 and another by RA to keep testing the 
IPv6 part.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_local_address

I also have an HE tunnel I use from time to time, but I have yet to find 
a good way of telling Netflix not to use it so it's generally disabled.

Roy