DHCPv6 client in base

[Julian Elischer]

On 10/6/19 5:53 PM, Ben Woods wrote:
> On Thu, 16 May 2019 at 2:25 am, Hiroki Sato <hrs at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> <driesm.michiels at gmail.com> wrote
>>    in <001e01d50b49$176104d0$46230e70$@gmail.com>:
>>
>> dr> Has anyone ever thought or considered integrating an IPv6 DHCP client
>> in
>> dr> base?
>>
>>   I have a plan to import wide-dhcp6 into the base system because it is
>>   simple enough.
>>
>> dr> net/dhcp6 isn't really maintained anymore from the KAME days it works
>> for
>> dr> basic functionality but fails when a more complex config is required.
>>
>>   More specifics about the complex configuration?
>>
>> -- Hiroki
>
> I would like to discuss whether dhcpcd is a better option to import into
> FreeBSD base, rather than wide-dhcp6.
>
> dhcpcd has the following benefits that I can see:
> - Actively maintained [1] (wide-dhcp6 seems to be stale for 11 years?)
> - Used in NetBSD and DragonflyBSD (code sharing amongst the BSDs will
> facilitate collective progress and lesson sharing). Roy, the upstream
> maintainer, has committer on both NetBSD and DragonFlyBSD.
> - more feature rich [2]
>
> [1] https://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd/history
> [2] https://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd/features
>
> hrs - what are your thoughts?
I'm not HRS, but as it uses netlink, how does NetBSD use it?  (i.e. 
how do we simulate that?)
>
> Regards,
> Ben