---- On Sun, 16 Nov 2025 06:36:24 +0000 Greg A. Woods <[email protected]> wrote --- > In looking for the cause of the rsh failure I also noted that dhcpcd is > doing the following every 10 seconds: > > Nov 15 21:17:37 once dhcpcd[465]: bge0: requesting DHCPv6 information > > Rumours on the internets are that a newer version of dhcpcd than is in > netbsd-10 might avoid this, but the rumours also suggest that the cause > is some misconfiguration of IPv6 in the local network, possibly having > to do with too-frequent route advertisements or some such. However I'm > not savvy enough with IPv6 to even begin to guess what the problem could > be, especially since everything other than NetBSD seems to be working > OK.
So this is a misconfiguration on the router and a bug I've just fixed in dhcpcd. Basically you have a RA saying "DHCPv6 exists, start INFORMATION REQUEST". However, no DHCPv6 reply comes back to our request. We do obey the RFC timings, with a caveat - we mirror CONFIRM MAX_MD so we can use the last "lease" we got. The bug here is that we reset them timings when doing this and will be fixed in the next version. So as far as you are concered this is just noise in the logs. (note, last lease for INFORM currently doesn't work anyway and I'm in two minds wether to fix that or not) Roy
