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

[Michael Sinatra]

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?

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