[111426] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Schnizlein)
Thu Feb 5 17:00:17 2009
From: John Schnizlein <schnizlein@isoc.org>
To: TJ <trejrco@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <00fc01c98734$fee046d0$fca0d470$@com>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 17:00:12 -0500
Cc: 'NANOG list' <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On 2009Feb4, at 8:56 PM, TJ wrote:
>
> However, many do not "have" DHCPv6 ... WinXP, MacOS, etc. are not
> capable.
Maybe upgrades, service packs and updates will make them capable of
using DHCPv6 for useful functions such as finding the address of an
available name server by the time IPv6-only networks are in operation.
> Also - does DHCPv6 currently have an option for prefix length? Just
> asking.
I did not see this answered in the long thread. The answer is No,
prefix length comes in the Router Advertisement.
John
