[YLUG] Tunneling
john halewood
john.halewood at gmail.com
Sun Oct 14 23:09:08 BST 2007
On 13/10/2007, Roger Leigh <rleigh at whinlatter.ukfsn.org> wrote:
> DHCP is irrelevant in this case. That's for automatic setup of IPv4
> interfaces (IPv6 support in ISC dhcpd is currently in the works, but
> the University DHCP server won't issue you with an IPv6 address). See
> the documentation on the SiXXS site, as well as the general Linux IPv6
> HOWTO/FAQs.
That's not strictly true - DHCP was actually a feature introduced into
IPv5/6 which was then backported to IPv4. Most IPv6 implementations
can autoconfigure their addresses in a manner similar to DHCP.
cheers
john
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