Bug 869580

Summary:	ISC dhcp in RHEL5 does not support IPv6
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	elias
Component:	dhcp	Assignee:	Jiri Popelka <jpopelka>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>
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Version:	5.7	CC:	jcpunk
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Description elias 2012-10-24 10:20:47 UTC

Description of problem:
ISC dhclient does not support IPv6 either. RHEL 5 contains package dhcpv6, but this client does not support setting up a DUID type. It automaticaly generates some incorrect type of DUID-LLT which is unpredictable and is very hard to copy from a console of IPv6 only host yet without network to the dhcpd6.conf of server.

As dhcpv6 is now obsolete, I am filling this bug for dhcp. It would be fine to have a reasonable DHCPv6 client on RHEL5 and I think that a newer version of ISC dhcp will do it very well.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Name       : dhcp
Arch       : x86_64
Epoch      : 12
Version    : 3.0.5
Release    : 31.el5_8.1

Name       : dhcpv6
Arch       : x86_64
Version    : 1.0.10
Release    : 20.el5

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Actual results:
DHCPv6 is supported only by obsolete client which is not full featured.

Expected results:
DHCPv6 should be supported by full featured client.


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Comment 1 Jiri Popelka 2012-10-24 10:34:09 UTC

Thank you for the report, however
there's no way we can rebase ISC dhcp to 4.x in RHEL-5.

dhcpv6 has been obsoleted upstream (few years ago)
but we still support it in RHEL-5.
You can fill a new bug against dhcpv6 component and describe the DUID related problem you see. Thanks.

Closing this one as WONTFIX.

Comment 2 Jiri Popelka 2012-10-24 10:38:43 UTC

I forgot to add that ISC dhcp in RHEL-6 is IPv6 Ready (http://www.ipv6ready.org) so your another possibility is RHEL-6.