dhclient -6 and dhclient-enter-hooks

[Chris Verges]

Hi folks,

I'm attempting to use "dhclient -6" on an embedded Linux system to
obtain a DHCPv6 address from a server.  I've verified that the server is
reachable and provides the correct IPv6 address information using a Mac
OS X laptop.

I overrode the default dhclient-enter-hooks on the system to store the
IP address information into a database log.  In addition, I've added a
debug statement to constantly append a timestamp and the $reason to
/var/log/dhclient-persistent.log.  I can verify that
dhclient-enter-hooks is being called for PREINIT6 by looking at the
logs.  Example output:

	# ifconfig eth0 | grep -i inet6
          inet6 addr: fe80::209:e6ff:feff:ff28/64 Scope:Link

	# dhclient -6 -w -nw -pf /var/run/dhclient.pid eth0

	# cat /var/log/dhclient-persistent.log
	DHCP activity at Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:15:04 -0700
	Reason: PREINIT6

Upon running "dhclient -6", my system will eventually be configured with
an IPv6 global address as handed out by the DHCPv6 server.  However, I
do not see any additional $reasons getting appended to the log file.
This is leading me to conclude that the dhclient-enter-hooks script is
not being called after an IPv6 address is configured, which is puzzling.

	# ifconfig eth0 | grep -i inet6
          inet6 addr: fd45:feab:e2d:3:209:e6ff:feff:ff28/64 Scope:Global
          inet6 addr: fe80::209:e6ff:feff:ff28/64 Scope:Link

	# cat /var/log/dhclient-persistent.log
	DHCP activity at Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:15:04 -0700
	Reason: PREINIT6

All that's showing up in /var/log/messages is a lot of "XMT: Solicit on
eth0, interval XXXX ms."  But as you can see from the output, a global
address is being assigned to the interface.  I expected to see an
additional message appended to the dhclient-persistent.log file saying
"Reason: BOUND6."

Any ideas?  I'm at a loss for where to even check next.

Thanks for the help!

Chris