dhclient -6 and IPv6 prefixes

Jiri Popelka jpopelka at redhat.com
Mon Sep 16 08:54:38 UTC 2013


On 09/16/2013 10:41 AM, Oskar Berggren wrote:
> Since some OS use network manager the bug gets reported there. I believe
> I read somewhere that someone had reported it to a isc dhcp mailing
> list, but I'm not sure.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=656610#c8

"For what it's worth I've also sent a patch to ISC to change
the hardcoded implicit prefix length value from /64 to /128
in [ISC-Bugs #29468]."

> I _believe_ Network manager uses dhclient to handle the DHCP protocol,
> but then configures the system itself, without the dhclient-script.

Yes, AFAIK NM uses environment variables that dhclient sets but has its 
own "dhclient-script" for configuring the system.

--
Jiri


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