[pkg-dhcp-devel] Bug#592539: (isc-dhcp-server: supply additional initscript for IPv6 daemon): Yet another idea how to solve this issue

[Jan Wagner]

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Dear release team,

I stumbled over this problem when we tried to setup a dualstacked
isc-dhcp-server in wheezy.

On 10/25/2012 06:03 PM, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:13:14AM +0200, Jan Wagner wrote:
>> On 08/15/2011 01:20 PM, Axel Beckert wrote:
>>> I ran into this today, too, so of course I would be happy, too,
>>> if one of the suggestions made in this bug report would make it
>>> into the Debian package. :-)
>> [...]
>>> I though think that Florent Fourcot's solution is the most
>>> elegant one and will probably implement it on my Squeeze based
>>> DHCP servers.
>>> 
>>> Andrew: Any idea if (or when) upstream will make DHCP for IPv4
>>> and DHCPv6 work in the same instance of dhcpd?
>> 
>> is there any reason for not implementing this?
>> 
>> As the bug is 2 years old and the lifecycle of wheezy is
>> actually planed ending anywhere in 2016, I'm asking me, if that
>> is conflicting with the IPv6 release goal (which we have since
>> Lenny). Looking into actual requirements in the field, it is
>> needed to run DHCP-servers dualstacked for a long time, at least
>> when wheezy will be released anytime.
>> 
>> So ... what is the showstopper for this (in my opinion) legitim
>> and reasonable request?
> 
> Time mainly. If you can get an advance commitment from the release
> managers that such a change would be allowed into Wheezy given it's
> frozen, I'd be more inclined to try and make some time to make it
> happen now rather than later.

As far as I know, Axel Beckert used the proposed fix successfully on
squeeze.

Could you please state, if you would accept such fix via t-p-u, if
this was also fixed in unstable.

This fix will enhance the IPv6-readyness in wheezy a lot, as in the
next years the IPv6 rollout in corporate networks requires DHCPv6 in
most cases (beside maybe parallel DHCPv4).

Many thanks, Jan.
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