Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2019 08:53:42 +0800 From: Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com> To: Hiroki Sato <hrs@freebsd.org> Cc: driesm.michiels@gmail.com, freebsd-net@freebsd.org, "roy@marples.name" <roy@marples.name> Subject: Re: DHCPv6 client in base Message-ID: <CAOc73CCLPmB7m3yaDE7p4izJ8apaO5jcyRPyLkSJtopqsHxtSQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20190516.032012.517661495892269813.hrs@allbsd.org> References: <001e01d50b49$176104d0$46230e70$@gmail.com> <20190516.032012.517661495892269813.hrs@allbsd.org>
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On Thu, 16 May 2019 at 2:25 am, Hiroki Sato <hrs@freebsd.org> wrote: > <driesm.michiels@gmail.com> wrote > in <001e01d50b49$176104d0$46230e70$@gmail.com>: > > dr> Has anyone ever thought or considered integrating an IPv6 DHCP client > in > dr> base? > > I have a plan to import wide-dhcp6 into the base system because it is > simple enough. > > dr> net/dhcp6 isn't really maintained anymore from the KAME days it works > for > dr> basic functionality but fails when a more complex config is required. > > More specifics about the complex configuration? > > -- Hiroki I would like to discuss whether dhcpcd is a better option to import into FreeBSD base, rather than wide-dhcp6. dhcpcd has the following benefits that I can see: - Actively maintained [1] (wide-dhcp6 seems to be stale for 11 years?) - Used in NetBSD and DragonflyBSD (code sharing amongst the BSDs will facilitate collective progress and lesson sharing). Roy, the upstream maintainer, has committer on both NetBSD and DragonFlyBSD. - more feature rich [2] [1] https://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd/history [2] https://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd/features hrs - what are your thoughts? Regards, Ben -- -- From: Benjamin Woods woodsb02@gmail.com
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