Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

Sun Feb 27 21:25:45 UTC 2011

Yes I don't understand why we need DHCPv6, true RD did not have DNS information to pass, but that is fixed, no?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Palmer" <mpalmer at hezmatt.org>
To: nanog at nanog.org
Sent: Sunday, 27 February, 2011 4:06:29 PM
Subject: Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 08:56:33AM -0500, Ray Soucy wrote:
> Mac OS X 10.7 does support RDNSS (RFC 5001) so it is able to get DNS
> server information in an IPv6-only environment.  Of course nobody else
> has implemented that yet, making Apple a "special case" host once
> again (I don't even think Cisco supports the option in their T series
> yet).

radvd and rdnssd work together on Linux nicely to provide RDNSS support. 
Works a treat.

- Matt