[ale] IPv6 & IPv4 DHCP

Alex Carver agcarver+ale at acarver.net
Thu Jul 19 10:40:52 EDT 2018


On 2018-07-19 07:10, Derek Atkins via Ale wrote:
> "Robert L. Harris via Ale" <ale at ale.org> writes:
> 
>>    Does anyone have a solution for serving both IPv4 and IPv6 DHCP?  using
>> isc-dhcpd, it looks like I can do one or the other but with some things I need
>> to occasionally do one or the other and I like static reservations on some
>> systems as well.  I've also had really bad luck with radvd, seems I manage to
>> take hosts offline when I run it and the various 'howto's I've run into are
>> all from 2011 as well.
> 
> They are separate beasts.  You can do both with ISC-DHCPD but, AFAIK,
> they are two different processes with two different configuration files.
> 
> Is there any reason you can't just do SLAAC or do you need DHCPv6 for
> some particular reason?

He does say he wants static reservations and SLAAC doesn't guarantee the
same address every single time.  It's highly likely that it will happen
but the specification doesn't explicitly guarantee it.


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