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

[Marc Blanchet]

Le 11-07-22 11:25, Ralph Droms a écrit :
> 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.?

tested both. I'm currently writing a blog entry with all my tests and 
findings. I'll post it here when finished.

(Btw, there might be some config knobs, but there are not apparent from 
the network panel, there might be some cmd utility but have not found 
any yet.)

Marc.

>
> - 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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IPv6 book: Migrating to IPv6, Wiley. http://www.ipv6book.ca
Stun/Turn server for VoIP NAT-FW traversal: http://numb.viagenie.ca
DTN Implementation: http://postellation.viagenie.ca
NAT64-DNS64 Opensource: http://ecdysis.viagenie.ca
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