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Old May 1st, 2012, 16:57
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Default DHCPv6 Support in FreeBSD 8.x
It appears to me that there is no support for DHCPv6 clients in FreeBSD 8.x. I guess I expect to see something like
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ifconfig_igb0="DHCP6"
in /etc/rc.conf but I don't.

Am I missing something?

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There's no DHCPv6 support in the base. Install something like net/dhcp6.

However, there is support for stateless configuration by using Router Advertisements.
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I'll check it out.

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I'm curious now. I rummaged around ports and found that ISC DHCP 4.x is in FreeBSD 8 and 9. Of course, there are no rc.d client scripts in these packages but I would guess that the upgrade from the current dhclient to a 4.x dhclient might be simpler than using WIDE dhcpv6.
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All versions of FreeBSD use the same ports tree. net/dhcp6 has a client and you only need to use that.
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