Re: Question about NetBSD implementation of IPv6 SLAAC and RFC4941

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

On 09/04/2020 12:20, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > Are you suggesting an in-kernel DHCPv6 client that supports RFC 5970 as well
> > to fill the gaps?
>
> Yes. This likely is not very important though, as most setups will be
> dual stack and be able to boot from a private IPv4 address instead.
> But in principle we should have feature parity for IPv4-only and IPv6-only
> setups.

Then I suggest the existing complex RA handling be removed and simpler code 
added alongside this DHCPv6 code.
After all, both only need to do enough for userland to boot.

Roy