[118295] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Loch)
Sun Oct 18 14:11:35 2009
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:10:51 -0400
From: Kevin Loch <kloch@kl.net>
To: 'NANOG' <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <006c01ca5018$9bbd1da0$d33758e0$@com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
TJ wrote:
>> In some cases different devices on a segment need a different
>> default router (for default). This is the fundamental
>
> This capability is also defined, "more specific routes" - but no one
> encouraged any vendors that I know of to support it - so they don't. Big
> demand?
by "Default" I meant 0.0.0.0/0, not more specifics.
>> problem with RA's, they shotgun the entire segment.
>
> As opposed to a standard deployment, where the DHCP server provides the same
> information to every host on that link ... ???
Not always. The DHCP server can be aware of specific clients by
mac address and give different options (and even pseudo-static IPs).
DHCP server is not always running on a router so adding this
functionality to routers won't help.
- Kevin
