Mercurial > hg > dhcpcd
changeset 2222:e20f0ad6f468 draft
Note NetBSD and OpenBSD problems with DHCPv6 stateful addressing.
Also note correct service options.
| author | Roy Marples <roy@marples.name> |
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| date | Tue, 14 Jan 2014 22:49:08 +0000 |
| parents | dd536bb2d7d6 |
| children | 87768649d84d |
| files | README |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/README Tue Jan 14 21:53:24 2014 +0000 +++ b/README Tue Jan 14 22:49:08 2014 +0000 @@ -38,10 +38,20 @@ BSD systems where this has been fixed are: NetBSD-5.0 -We try and detect how dhcpcd should interact with system services during the -configure stage. If we cannot auto-detect how do to this, or it is wrong then -you can change this by passing shell commands to --service-exists, ---servicecmd and optionally --servicestatus. +Some BSD systems protect against IPv6 NS/NA messages by ensuring that the +source address matches an address/prefix on the interface. +This is an error as the correct check is for on-link prefixes. +As such, on these systems stateful addressing via DHCPv6 may cause issues +trying to reach other neighbours. +BSD systems where this is known to be a problem + Occured in NetBSD-5.0, fixed in NetBSD-6.99.29 + Occured in OpenBSD-4.2, fixed in OpenBSD-5.0 + +We try and detect how dhcpcd should interact with system services at runtime. +If we cannot auto-detect how do to this, or it is wrong then +you can change this by passing shell commands to --serviceexists, +--servicecmd and optionally --servicestatus to ./configure or overriding +the service variables in a hook. Some systems have /dev management systems and some of these like to rename interfaces. As this system would listen in the same way as dhcpcd to new @@ -92,4 +102,4 @@ --------- We no longer supply a ChangeLog. However, you're more than welcome to read the commit log at -http://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd/log/ +http://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd/timeline/
