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@Superpaul209 Superpaul209 commented Jul 29, 2022

Improvements include the following:

You can suggest any changes on this PR, I have made and tested those patches in a jail for armv7.
https://github.com/Superpaul209/dhcp6c-armv7

Redmine link : https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/8173

Improvements include the following:

- Reload the client configuration on SIGHUP
- Removed all unused binaries except dhcp6c
- Raw option send and receive support
- PDINFO delegated prefix environment variable
- Accept interfaces from the configuration file

- Increased log verbosity.
- Fix socket leakage by setting FD_CLOEXEC.
- Call a configuration script after addresses and prefixes are set
  on an interface.
- Update ifid on interface restart, it may have changed.
- "-n" flag to prevent address release from being sent to the DHCP server
  upon restart.

- Merged PR : opnsense/dhcp6c#28
- Merged PR : opnsense/dhcp6c#29
- Merged PR : opnsense/dhcp6c#30
@marcos-ng marcos-ng changed the title Improvements for dhcp6 net/dhcp6: support raw options. Implement #8173 Oct 24, 2024
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These are good improvements, though given the large change it seems it'd be better to submit this upstream.

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