[112029] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Confusion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Ward)
Wed Feb 18 15:28:40 2009
From: Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net>
To: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <22995.1234988276@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:26:30 +1300
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On 19/02/2009, at 9:17 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> 2) Some end-node box with a IPv6 stack from "Joe's Software Emporium
> and
> Bait-n-Tackle" sees an RA packet, and concludes that since RA and
> DHCPv6
> are mutually exclusive, to ignore any DHCPv6 packets it sees, and
> hilarity
> ensues.
They are not mutually exclusive, DHCPv6 *requires* RA.
Or did you mean SLAAC?
If you did, I am not sure that they are mutually exclusive - I see no
reason for telling hosts a prefix to number out of (SLAAC), and also
telling hosts to use DHCPv6. That actually seems like a good solution
to a number of problems.
--
Nathan Ward
