IPv6 DHCP and DNS server?

[ZiaTioN]

I am looking for the best way to setup an IPv6 testbed here at my work. Of course I want to use Linux as the OS of choice so I have been researching a bit about Linux's capability to support the IPv6 protocol.

My intent is to include any and all equipment and software that will incorporate the testing of all voice, video and data. As of now I plan on using the VLC (Video Lan Client) software suite which will do Unicast and Multicast of all the more popular video compression types in IPv6. As for data I have in mind the iputils and NetKit utils packages already available to make use of some of the more basic data transmission and transfer applications. And for voice I plan on implementing IP telephony with IPv6 which includes quite a bit more than just some open source apps to accomplish but that is another issue.

Now with all that said my question(s) is/are what functionality does the current 2.4 or 2.6 kernels already incorporate to support IPv6 DNS and DHCP servers? Is the capability already implemented in the newer release OS's such as Fedora Core 1/2, RedHat 9, RedHat Enterprise, etc? What sort of kernel compilation or configuration is required to enable IPv6 for these built in servers on any of the pre-mentioned OS's?

[Void Main]

I think most/all of what you want can be found here:

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+IPv6-HOWTO/

I'm really dreading this IPv6 thing personally.

[ZiaTioN]

I'm really dreading this IPv6 thing personally.

I could not agree more. IPv6 is no where near implementation status but it is still being pushed. End-to-End connectivity would be nice in theory but will also cause some issues to those of us who actually like the autonomy of NAT.

IPSec is also a decent thing to make mandatory as part of the base protocol but this also causes problems for organizations like mine that hardware encrypt. Not to mention the speculated fact that IPv4 will never cease to exist so 6to4 will always be an issue. Mobility, multiple addresses per device, and automatic configuration are all still concerns to large to overlook at this time. Anyway thanks for the link, I will check it out.