Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

[TR Shaw <tshaw () oitc com>]

On Feb 27, 2011, at 1:56 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Feb 2011, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
>
> > On 2/26/11 9:27 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> > > On Sat, 26 Feb 2011, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 2/26/11 9:05 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
> > > > > > With copies out to developers we now have confirmation that Apple
> > > > > > still hasn't included DHCPv6 in the next release of OS X.
> > > > >
> > > > > what is it about ipv6 which attracts religious nuts?
> > > >
> > > > you sure it's not macos (says joel from a v6 enabled mac).
> > >
> > > On a more serious note, I can on my Ubuntu machine just "apt-get install
> > > wide-dhcpv6-client" and I get dhcpv6, it'll properly put stuff in
> > > resolv.conf for dns-over-ipv6 transport, even though the connection
> > > manager knows nothing about it, at least dual stack works properly.
> > >
> > > Can one do the equivalent easy addition to OSX?
> >
> > You can, the actual integration issue is that network mangler (on
> > ubuntu/fedora etal) and the osX airport connection manager will give up
> > on a subnet on which they can't obtain an ipv4 address in prefernce to
> > one where they can... this can also be worked around but it makes
> > v6-only operation (Assuming that were desired, or even a good idea at
> > this point) something that the majority of the users wouldn't be able to
> > achive without the default behavior changing.
>
> I'm not that interested in v6 only, I'm after requiring DHCPv6 and disallowing SLAAC, which clients can use IPv6 then?
>
> List afaik:
>
> Can:
> Windows Vista/Win7 (default)
> Linux (with non-default software)
> *BSD (with non-default software)
>
> Probably:
>
> OSX (with non-default software)
>
> Can't:
>
> Windows XP
>
> Don't know:
>
> Symbian
> Android
> Apple iOS

Mikael,

try:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/wide-dhcpv6/
http://wouter.horre.be/doc/stateless-dhcpv6-on-mac-os-x

or 

http://klub.com.pl/dhcpv6/

There are others out there. I prefer wide for now.  Works on 10.6. Haven't tried it on 10.5.

Tom