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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v4] busybox: Update udhcpc.script for stateful DHCPv6
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2019 16:06:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190407160622.626d95b1@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180726013919.31268-1-sam@mendozajonas.com>

Hello Samuel,

On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 11:39:19 +1000
Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@mendozajonas.com> wrote:

> udhcpc6 will call the default script with the address set in the "ipv6"
> variable. Set "ip" to this address if present.
> 
> udhcpc6 implements "stateful" DHCPv6 for explicitly requesting an address
> and other configuration information. A major difference between DHCPv4
> and DHCPv6 is that DHCPv6 does *not* advertise a default route; this is
> determined by normal IPv6 autoconfiguration.
> Included is a change from Rob, which if handling a DHCPv6 address waits
> a moment for the IPv6 route to be configured; as above this doesn't come
> from DHCPv6 but rather the IPv6 Router Advertisement (RA) which happens
> independently from udhcpc6. The intent here is to try and ensure that
> the interface is route-able upon the script's completion as it would be
> if called from udhcpc.
> 
> (wait for IPv6 route)
> From: Robert Lippert <rlippert@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@mendozajonas.com>
> ---
> v4: Expand description of stateful DHCPv6 in commit message
> v3: Point out 'stateful' DHCPv6 in commit, send to the correct list...
> v2: Avoid bashisms

On February 26, 2019, you received some comments on this patch (yes it
took a lot of time for someone to review the patch, but it finally
happened). Could you take into account those comments and post an
updated version ?

Thanks a lot!

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-04-07 14:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-26  1:39 [Buildroot] [PATCH v4] busybox: Update udhcpc.script for stateful DHCPv6 Samuel Mendoza-Jonas
2018-08-21  3:20 ` Samuel Mendoza-Jonas
2019-02-18 23:15   ` Samuel Mendoza-Jonas
2019-02-26 14:21     ` Matthew Weber
2019-04-07 14:06 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2019-04-09  0:51   ` Samuel Mendoza-Jonas

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