Dhcpd with ipv6 support

Robert Socha socha at socha.it
Wed Aug 26 07:16:39 UTC 2020


Hi,

Try luck with dnsmasq. It's GPL2 and have RA support (--enable-ra).

http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html

Regards

W dniu 26.08.2020 o 06:33, Anjali Krishna pisze:
> Hi,
> 
> Since my embedded board has to function as an Wi-Fi hotspot, adding 
> radvd functionality is on my hands where exactly I am helpless.
> 
> On Wed, 26 Aug 2020, 9:43 am , <glenn.satchell at uniq.com.au 
> <mailto:glenn.satchell at uniq.com.au>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Anjali
> 
>     Maybe the network switch or router has a builtin router advertisement
>     feature?
> 
>     regards,
>     -glenn
> 
>     On 2020-08-26 13:54, Anjali Krishna wrote:
>      > Hi,
>      >
>      >     I tried the radvd daemon in yocto.
>      > But before I could continue further I came across the license info of
>      > Radvd. I am allowed only to use packages which has GPL v2 license
>      > unfortunately radvd has BSD license.(it is a constraint from our
>      > higher development team).
>      >
>      > Is there any other way I can move forward.?. I searched for any
>      > alternative for radvd but could not find it
>      >
>      > I am stuck here. Any further suggestion would be appreciated
>      >
>      > Regards,
>      >
>      > Anjali
>      >
>      > On Mon, 10 Aug 2020, 10:41 pm Bill Shirley,
>      > <bill at c3po.polymerindustries.biz
>     <mailto:bill at c3po.polymerindustries.biz>> wrote:
>      >
>      >> No matter who the vendor is, for IPv6 all devices require a Router
>      >> Advertisement Daemon.
>      >>
>      >> iDevices support DHCPv6.  Most Android devices do not.  For your
>      >> reading pleasure:
>      >> https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36949085
>      >>
>      >> Bill
>      >> On 8/9/2020 6:47 PM, Joshua Stark wrote:
>      >> Hi Krishna,
>      >>
>      >> iPhone's are the same.
>      >>
>      >> You need to use a Router Advertisement Daemon to send back the flags
>      >> needed for the client to go looking for a DHCPv6 server.
>      >>
>      >> There is lots of good resources out on the web, what you need to do
>      >> is look at DHCPv6 vs SLAAC (Stateless Address Auto-Configuration)
>      >>
>      >> For the RAD, I use radvd on my gateway, the configuration can be
>      >> found here: https://linux.die.net/man/5/radvd.conf
>      >>
>      >> I use the options:
>      >> # Set to on to turn on Stateful DHCPv6
>      >> # If set to off, then will use Stateless IPv6
>      >> AdvManagedFlag on;
>      >> AdvOtherConfigFlag on;
>      >>
>      >> To tell the clients to go looking for DHCPv6
>      >>
>      >> Thanks
>      >> Josh
>      >>
>      >> On 10/8/20 07:59, Bill Shirley wrote:
>      >>
>      >> Most Android devices don't support getting an IPv6 address via DHCP.
>      >>
>      >> Bill
>      >> On 8/9/2020 4:11 AM, Anjali Krishna wrote:
>      >>
>      >> Hi all,
>      >>
>      >> I am testing ipv6 support between my embedded board and Android
>      >> phone.
>      >>
>      >> Two embedded boards are getting connected with ipv6 when running
>      >> dhcpd - 6 in server and dhclient - 6 in client side.
>      >>
>      >> As an extension of the testing,I configured my board as ipv6 hostpot
>      >> and tries connecting my android phone which supports ipv6.. The
>      >> process got stuck at obtaining ip address message in phone wifi
>      >> screen.
>      >>
>      >> I m doubting some configuration is missing in my wifi server dhcpd
>      >> configuration.
>      >>
>      >> Any help would be appreciated
>      >>
>      >> Regard,
>      >> Anjali
>      >>
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