Dhcpd with ipv6 support

glenn.satchell at uniq.com.au glenn.satchell at uniq.com.au
Wed Aug 26 04:13:13 UTC 2020


Hi Anjali

Maybe the network switch or router has a builtin router advertisement 
feature?

regards,
-glenn

On 2020-08-26 13:54, Anjali Krishna wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>     I tried the radvd daemon in yocto.
> But before I could continue further I came across the license info of
> Radvd. I am allowed only to use packages which has GPL v2 license
> unfortunately radvd has BSD license.(it is a constraint from our
> higher development team).
> 
> Is there any other way I can move forward.?. I searched for any
> alternative for radvd but could not find it
> 
> I am stuck here. Any further suggestion would be appreciated
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Anjali
> 
> On Mon, 10 Aug 2020, 10:41 pm Bill Shirley,
> <bill at c3po.polymerindustries.biz> wrote:
> 
>> No matter who the vendor is, for IPv6 all devices require a Router
>> Advertisement Daemon.
>> 
>> iDevices support DHCPv6.  Most Android devices do not.  For your
>> reading pleasure:
>> https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36949085
>> 
>> Bill
>> On 8/9/2020 6:47 PM, Joshua Stark wrote:
>> Hi Krishna,
>> 
>> iPhone's are the same.
>> 
>> You need to use a Router Advertisement Daemon to send back the flags
>> needed for the client to go looking for a DHCPv6 server.
>> 
>> There is lots of good resources out on the web, what you need to do
>> is look at DHCPv6 vs SLAAC (Stateless Address Auto-Configuration)
>> 
>> For the RAD, I use radvd on my gateway, the configuration can be
>> found here: https://linux.die.net/man/5/radvd.conf
>> 
>> I use the options:
>> # Set to on to turn on Stateful DHCPv6
>> # If set to off, then will use Stateless IPv6
>> AdvManagedFlag on;
>> AdvOtherConfigFlag on;
>> 
>> To tell the clients to go looking for DHCPv6
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Josh
>> 
>> On 10/8/20 07:59, Bill Shirley wrote:
>> 
>> Most Android devices don't support getting an IPv6 address via DHCP.
>> 
>> Bill
>> On 8/9/2020 4:11 AM, Anjali Krishna wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I am testing ipv6 support between my embedded board and Android
>> phone.
>> 
>> Two embedded boards are getting connected with ipv6 when running
>> dhcpd - 6 in server and dhclient - 6 in client side.
>> 
>> As an extension of the testing,I configured my board as ipv6 hostpot
>> and tries connecting my android phone which supports ipv6.. The
>> process got stuck at obtaining ip address message in phone wifi
>> screen.
>> 
>> I m doubting some configuration is missing in my wifi server dhcpd
>> configuration.
>> 
>> Any help would be appreciated
>> 
>> Regard,
>> Anjali
>> 
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