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RE: IPv6 delivery model to end customers

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (TJ)
Tue Feb 10 09:01:22 2009

From: "TJ" <trejrco@gmail.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0902100801430.16135@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:01:08 -0500
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

>> My pleasure, now everyone - feel free to ring up your local
>> sales/support rep and "encourage" their product to implement this ...
>> please!
>
>What about "DHCPv6 / DHCPV6-PD" sniffing (and using that info to create L3
>filter rules in L2 devices), is a standard needed or is it obvious to
>vendors how to implement it?


An analogy to "DHCP Guard" - yes, please do encourage them to also do this.
(And an RFC might not be a bad idea ... )

While we are at it - MLD Snooping should (IMHO) be a switch's default
behavior as well!



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