DHCPv6 still feared and hated at Apple?, was Re: Mac OSX 10.7

Shane Kerr shane at time-travellers.org
Fri Jul 22 17:19:55 CEST 2011


Iljitsch,

On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 17:05 +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> On 20 jul 2011, at 17:01, Dyonisius Visser wrote:
> 
> > Just coughed up €22.99 in the Apple Store and upgraded to 10.7 (Lion).
> > Some major improvements that are directly noticeable:
> 
> > * DHCPv6
> > * Samba over IPv6
> > * Random addresses
> 
> > The DHCPv6 is of course the thing that everyone's been waiting for.
> 
> Blrgh.

I don't have a Mac, but apparently 10.7 does not include DHCPv6. At
least according to someone who has one, there are no knobs labeled
DHCPv6, and his laptop did not detect his DHCPv6 server.

So you can be happy about that.

--
Shane

p.s. Is this the networking equivalent of a right mouse button?



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