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

[Ralph Droms]

Marc...

On Jul 22, 2011, at 11:21 AM 7/22/11, Marc Blanchet wrote:

> Le 11-07-22 11:19, Shane Kerr a écrit :
>> 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.
> 
> sorry, it is included and working just fine. I've tested with Developer Previews. But, right, there are no knobs...

Full stateful DHCPv6 address assignment?  Or stateless for RDNSS, NTP server, etc.?

- Ralph

> 
> Marc.
> 
> 
>> 
>> So you can be happy about that.
>> 
>> --
>> Shane
>> 
>> p.s. Is this the networking equivalent of a right mouse button?
> 
> 
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