[ipv6-ops] Re: DHCPv6 still feared and hated at Apple?, was Re: Mac OSX 10.7

[Aaron Hughes]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 11:34:25AM -0700, Michael Sinatra wrote:
> On 07/22/11 09:18, Sander Steffann wrote:
> >>>It does use DHCPv6, but only if the RA has the O or M flag set.
> >>
> >>right. per RFC... ;-)
> >
> >Since not all DHCPv6 implementation actually listen to the RA I thought I should point it out ;)
> >Sander
> >
> 
> Sorry to come late to this thread, but I did some testing with a
> freshly-installed copy of Lion (clean install, not upgrade).  DHCPv6
> does work as expected as you mention.  I also noticed that
> privacy/temporary SLAAC addresses are enabled by default.  Anyone
> else seeing that?

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inet6 2607:fae0:1:1:226:8ff:fede:4ce6 prefixlen 64 autoconf 
inet6 2607:fae0:1:1:5539:d917:8b69:128e prefixlen 64 autoconf temporary 

[end]

Also noticed some odd changes to Server Admin Tools firewall. IPv6 addresses are now valid in rules, however, the software attempts to apply them to ipfw instead of ip6fw, DOH! At least it's a step forward.

Cheers,
Aaron

> 
> Tonight, I am going to test the behavior when I turn off the
> autoconfig flag on the prefix announcements.  (I am doing the
> testing on my home network.)
> 
> Will look forward to Marc's blog entry when it comes out. :)
> 
> michael

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