https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9096.html was just published.
While is has specific relevance to those running Debian as their CPE, it also has relevance to people running Debian on a desktop or laptop, and also using virtual machines.
It is not yet popular to get prefixes via DHCPv6-PD for use with VMs (LXCs, Dockers...), I think that part of this is due to lack of clear infrastructure for doing that.
In particular, RFC9096 makes it clear that DHCPv6-PD clients ought to store the prefixes they got in stable fashion that survives reboots.
The question is, where would we do that on Debian?
It would be nice if we could do this in a fashion that was independant of the various tool options that exist to manage things.
On Wed, 01 Sep 2021, Bjørn Mork wrote:
ifupdown has this extremely annoying misfeature that it forces a release
on shutdown, both for DHCP and DHCPv6. The automatic release on every
This is *highly* desired *on IPv4*, wherever address pools are scarce.
The correct thing would likely be: do not do it on IPv6, but still do it
on IPv4.
ifupdown has this extremely annoying misfeature that it forces a release
on shutdown, both for DHCP and DHCPv6. The automatic release on every
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