[118473] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mohacsi Janos)
Thu Oct 22 08:27:02 2009
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:25:52 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mohacsi Janos <mohacsi@niif.hu>
To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
In-Reply-To: <20091022103041.GB32008@vacation.karoshi.com.>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 09:20:11PM +1100, Karl Auer wrote:
>> On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 11:40 +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
>>> If, on the other hand, the REAL desire is to have a DHCP server break
>>> the tie in the selection between several routers that advertise their
>>> presence, that wouldn't be unreasonable.
>>
>> The RA contains a preference level... maybe that doesn't cut it if
>> multiple routers are sending the same preference level, but presumably
>> that would not happen in a well-tended network.
>
> I point you to a fairly common Internet architecture artifact,
> the exchange point... dozens of routers sharing a common
> media for peering exchange.
And you want to use router advertisments for assigning addresses for them?
Huh!
Regards,
Janos