[131347] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 =?windows-1252?Q?=97_Unique_local_addres?=
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Fri Oct 22 09:56:21 2010
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:55:49 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinKHiSZ41duj1rS650MWbf7qMvW96uyO_XGBOF4@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 10/22/2010 7:12 AM, Ray Soucy wrote:
> The design of IPv6 is that DHCPv6 and RA work together. This is why
> there is no method to express the default gateway using DHCPv6, that
> task is handled by the RA. I suppose you could run DHCPv6 on a subnet
> to give hosts addresses but never give them a default gateway, but
> that would be a little useless no?
>
Works great when you don't need routing.
DHCPv6 doesn't have an option for a default gateway/router
There. No confusion. RA isn't the only way to load a route. It's just
the most supported.
Jack
