Understood.

Francis,

You do see that the netbsd dhclient-script (as it stands today) needs a
little bit of work for NetBSD 6.0 compatibility, correct?

Thanks,
Tim

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Francis Dupont via RT <dhcp-bugs@isc.org>wrote:

> On Tue Oct 23 15:11:09 2012, tpdean@gmail.com wrote:
> > Had to a make a minor tweak inside dhcp-4.2.4-P2/client/scripts/netbsd in
> > order to get DHCPv6 working on NetBSD 6.0 final:
> >
> > L282 currently reads:  ifconfig ${interface} inet6 add
> > ${new_ip6_address}/${new_ip6_prefixlen}
> >
> > Had to remove "add" in order for this to apply the acquired address
> > properly.  ifconfig yields a syntax error otherwise.  Unsure if this
> > affects previous versions of NetBSD.
>
> => unfortunately the "add" (or the correct version of it, I've just set up
> a NetBSD 6.0 virtual machine so the man says it is a final "alias",
> and "-alias" for del(ete)) makes the difference between a command
> which sets (by overwriting) the address and a command which adds
> another address. So the correct fix should require more work.
>
>