IPV6: Stateless DHCP support

[jwstric2]

Hi all,

I have a network set-up with stateless address assignment (M flag of router advertisement = 0) with dhcp stateless information assignment (O flag = 1). The Router Advertisement is received by the client, (M=0, O=1). The client configures the host portion of the assigned prefix correctly.

However, the client seems to never send a dhcpv6 information request message (packet sniff and viewing the domainname and resolve file after). My configuration is as follows:

Fedora core 12. Kernel 2.6.32.21-166
IfCFG: DEVICE=eth0 HWADDR=00:1C:23:8F:BA:8B ONBOOT=yes NETWORKING_IPV6=yes

Other info needed?

Thanks in advance,

[jwstric2]

I still need to review the sysconfig paramenters further, but a quick fix was to manually instantiate the dhclient process .... 'dhclient -S', where -S is for Stateless Information request.