Dear Maintainer,

dhclient does not work when doing DHCPv6 with an interface alias, e.g.

dhclient -6 -v eth0:1

fails.  The attached patch is required to fix it.

  * When comparing enumerated interface name with cmdline interface name,
    the cmdline interface name alias extension must be stripped since all
    enumerated interface names have their alias extension stripped.
    Without this, DHCPv6 fails for interface aliases. (LP: #1693819)


Thanks for considering the patch.

Dear Maintainer,

an updated isc-dhcp patch is attached, that moves the interface alias
stripping to client/dhclient.c as soon as the parameter is parsed from argv.
This allows dhclient to handle the interface name with no alias at all times.
The previous patch failed to allow dhclient to release the interface.

Thanks for considering the patch.

Dear submitter,

as the package isc-dhcp has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

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