DHCPv6 Support in FreeBSD Base

[David Bright]

On Jun 9, 2016, at 18:08, Hiroki Sato <hrs at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> I am concerned that by
> replacing it completely we might be going to lose accumulated
> improvements in our code though I do not have a complete list of them
> nor closely look into the current ISC's code.  If no one investigated
> it, it need to be done.

A fair point.

> Is it difficult for us to think two clients for IPv4 and IPv6
> respectively?  Importing a DHCPv6-only client looks much easier even
> if we use ISC's code.

I thought of that. It certainly would be possible, although it would mean two clients providing essentially duplicate functionality, thereby leading to some bloat in the system image size.




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