[131237] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=94?= Unique local addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Luca Tosolini)
Thu Oct 21 15:43:12 2010
From: Luca Tosolini <bit.gossip@chello.nl>
To: Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinOTrk-cx6qbqvOAOFr+rRRB+vNEb9QDUJnwYei@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 21:43:00 +0200
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 14:19 -0400, Ray Soucy wrote:
> We've decided to disable SLAAC (State-Less Address Auto-Configuration)
> on almost all our IPv6 networks and use DHCPv6 exclusively. This
> allows us to only respond with DHCPv6 to the hosts we want to get an
> IPv6 address instead of enabling it network-wide and crossing your
> fingers. The disadvantage here is that DHCPv6 client support is still
> limited (OS X has none for example). The argument is that IPv6 isn't
> mission critical yet, so we're waiting to see if vendors will come
> around and include DHCPv6 client support in the future.
>
Ray,
how do you convey the default-router information with DHCPv6 only. AFAIK
there is no such field in DHCPv6...
Luca.
