dhcpcd-discuss

Hello Roy,
(bit late joining the party)
Thanks for the solution! This is great news!
What release this will be available in?

Regards,
-shahid


On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 4:23 PM Roy Marples <roy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 16/03/2020 13:36, Roy Marples wrote:
> > Hi Dusan
> >
> > On 16/03/2020 12:47, Mudric, Dusan (Dusan) wrote:
> >> What does DHCPv6 server do when the phone detects the assigned address
> is
> >> duplicated?
> >>
> >>   * If the address is statically assigned, is the server going to send
> the same
> >>     address, which cannot be used since it is duplicated?
> >>   * If the address is from a pool, is the server going to send a new
> address?
> >>   * Any other option?
> >
> > There has been this long standing comment at the top of dhcp6.c
> >
> > https://roy.marples.name/cgit/dhcpcd.git/tree/src/dhcp6.c#n29
> > /* TODO: We should decline dupliate addresses detected */
> >
> > Basically, DHCPv6 is made complicated by having many addresses and I've
> never
> > gotten around to actually trying to decline some of the addresses.
>
> Well, I've finally gotten around to fixing it.
> Tested against WIDE dhcp6 server on NetBSD and comitted here:
>
> https://roy.marples.name/cgit/dhcpcd.git/commit/?id=9c817dc5a5567ca735a713a76f5b62f8bb954ea9
>
> AFAIK dhcpcd is the only open source DHCPv6 client that now does this :)
>
> Roy
>
>