[pkg-dhcp-devel] Adapting isc-dhcp-server to IPv6

[Andrew Pollock]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:45:47AM +0100, Per Carlson wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I'm looking into the possibilities to add IPv6 support to this
> package. As ISC currently doesn't support running as a IPv4 and a IPV6
> server simultaneously, two instances (using different options) of the
> daemon must be started. As I see it, there are (at least) two
> different main paths to achieve that:
> 
> 1) Tailor /etc/init.d/isc-server to be able to start both daemons. The
> instructions which to start + other options are sourced from
> /etc/default/isc-dhcpd-server
> 
> 2) Add a separate init-script and default config for IPv6 (isc-dhcpv6-server??).
> 2.1) Both modes are installed by the isc-dhcp-server package
> 2.2) Add the IPv6 scripts/config in a separate package, which depends
> on isc-dhcp-server for the binaries etc.
> 
> What do you think? Is this viable options? Which one is prefered? Any
> other (better) option?

My initial thoughts are to have two init scripts, provided by
isc-dhcp-server, which both consult /etc/default/isc-dhcp-server to
determine what should happen.

It's too late to do anything like this for Squeeze, unfortunately, but once
Squeeze has been released, we can do some refactoring.

regards

Andrew
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