Package: isc-dhcp-client
Version: 4.4.1-2.3
Severity: important
Tags: ipv6 patch upstream
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isc-dhcp-client can't be used on PPP interfaces:
```
$ sudo dhclient -6 -d -cf ./dhclient6_pppoe0.conf -pf
dhclient6_pppoe0.pid -lf $PWD/dhclient6_pppoe0.leases -N pppoe0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.4.1
Copyright 2004-2018 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
Unsupported device type 512 for "pppoe0"
```
My IPS assigns IPv6 addresses and prefixes using DHCPv6 over PPPoE.
WIDE DHCPv6 client supports DHCPv6 over PPP however it is not
feature-rich as ISC DHCP Client. I would like to use ISC DHCP if this
issue is fixed.
I found this thread
https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/dhcp-users/2020-February/021991.html on
ISC mailing list, which mentioned an old patch. I also found Fedora has
an up-to-date patch
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/dhcp/blob/rawhide/f/0013-DHCPv6-over-PPP-support-626514.patch.
I tested this patch with
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/isc-dhcp/-/tree/master/debian/patches
locally and it is working fine.
I saw ISC has stopped maintaining the DHCP client. Is it possible to
accept this patch to Debian?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.3
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-15-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages isc-dhcp-client depends on:
ii debianutils 4.11.2
ii iproute2 5.10.0-4
ii libc6 2.31-13+deb11u3
ii libdns-export1110 1:9.11.19+dfsg-2.1
ii libisc-export1105 1:9.11.19+dfsg-2.1
Versions of packages isc-dhcp-client recommends:
ii isc-dhcp-common 4.4.1-2.3
Versions of packages isc-dhcp-client suggests:
pn avahi-autoipd <none>
pn isc-dhcp-client-ddns <none>
pn resolvconf <none>
-- no debconf information
