[OpenIndiana-discuss] IPv6 DHCP

[James Carlson]

Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
> You have (service names from an earlier release, may not be identical):
> EITHER
> svc:/network/physical:nwam
> OR
> svc:/network/physical:default
> 
> Only one of those can be used.  The first tries to Do The Right Thing, automagically (including DHCP and all that); the second is for a straightforward static configuration.

There's a little bit of confusion here.

With IPv4, DHCP is invoked either by manual configuration or by NWAM,
because there's no standard IPv4 mechanism that tells a node whether it
should run DHCP on a given network.

With IPv6, DHCPv6 is invoked by the actions of in.ndpd, because there's
a standard Router Advertisement based mechanism that tells a node
whether DHCPv6 is in use.  For v6, it should have nothing to do with NWAM.

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James Carlson         42.703N 71.076W         <carlsonj at workingcode.com>