[pkg-dhcp-devel] Bug#611825: isc-dhcp-server: DHCPv6 server difficult to start / cohabit with DHCPv4

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

Package: isc-dhcp-server
Version: 4.1.1-P1-15
Severity: normal

It appears to me like it's pretty hard to install isc-dhcp and set it
up according to the type of server one wants to use; e.g. setting it
up as a DHCPv6 server specifically, or having a DHCPv6 server
alongside a DHCPv4 server.

I think a little more could be done to facilitate such setups and
avoid people editing the isc-dhcp-server init script (and potentially
losing their changes in an update).

It's far from ideal I realize, but attached is a patch which attempts
to make this a little simpler: setting up a DHCPv6 server from there
is a matter of symlinking the init script or copying it to a new name
and editing a file /etc/default/<basename_of_init_script>. Setting up
the mode of the server (to serve v4 or v6 addresses) is set as an
additional option in that file.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers natty-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'natty-updates'), (500, 'natty-security'), (500, 'natty')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-12-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash


Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <mathieu-tl at ubuntu.com>
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