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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


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